Question follow-through · 11540
Councillors: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a framework to enable parish councils to remunerate elected parish councillors.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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- Council Tax: Probate · 28 Aug 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a framework to enable parish councils to remunerate elected parish councillors.
23 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2026
Answer published
Parish and town councils may already pay a basic allowance to their councillors. It is up to individual councils to set levels of allowances appropriate for their individual circumstances.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Council Tax: Probate
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of guidance to billing authorities on the exercise of discretionary powers to reduce council-tax liabilities where an estate has been