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Series
Committee on the Remuneration of Ministers and MPs (the Lawrence Committee)
Catalogue reference: PRO 41/1
What's it about?
PRO 41/1
Contains agenda, minutes and working papers of the Committee on the Remuneration of Ministers and MPs, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Lawrence QC, (the Lawrence Committee), together with a number of questionnaires completed by members of the House of Commons.
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PRO 41/1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee on the Remuneration of Ministers and MPs (the Lawrence Committee)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1963-1964
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Description (What the record is about)
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Contains agenda, minutes and working papers of the Committee on the Remuneration of Ministers and MPs, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Lawrence QC, (the Lawrence Committee), together with a number of questionnaires completed by members of the House of Commons.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Committee on the Remuneration of Ministers and MPs, 1964-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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33 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Pay and pensions
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The appointment of Sir Geoffrey Lawrence QC as chair of the Committee on the Remuneration of Ministers and Members of Parliament was announced on 19 December 1963. The terms of reference for the committee were to review and recommend what changes were desirable in the remunerationof Mr Speaker, Members of the House of Commons and also the allowance for Members of the House of Lords, having regard to their responsibilities in the national life and to the increases in expenses borne by members of both houses. On 18 February 1964, The Prime Minister (Alec Douglas-Home) took the view that it would be desirable to interpret their terms of reference as to enable the committee to consider the question of pensions for MPs and arrangements for the Members' Fund.
The first meeting of the committee was held on 13 January 1964 and the final meeting on 1 October 1964. The committte's report was delivered to the new Prime Minister (Harold Wilson) in October 1964. The Prime Minister presented the report to parliament in the form of a Command Paper (Cmnd 2516).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12075/
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