Charity Commission expenses incurred by Board Members and the senior Executive team

In line with its commitment to transparency and openness, the Charity Commission has decided to publish Board Members’, Chief Executive’s and Directors’ expenses online. This publication of expenses covers the financial year 2009/2010 (1 April 2009 to 30 September 2009) for each Board Member and Director by significant expense class - see table below.

Expenses will be published hereafter quarterly, ie covering the previous three months. These expenses will be scrutinised by the Charity Commission’s Audit Committee every six months.

	Subsistence	Mileage	Accommodation	Rail	Flights	Taxis	Bus/ Coach	Parking	Postage	Food	Total
Board Members
Dame S Leather1 (Chair)			70.00	819.90		1,757.29			20.70	30.89	2698.78
J Williams			79.38	52.85							132.23
T Woodcraft				11.82							11.82
S Jones2			270.99	1,526.50		155.00			21.45		1973.94
S Nebhrajani				95.60		14.00					109.60
A Purkis				159.86							159.86
T Sowa			79.38	189.45							268.83
S Wethered				63.41		7.50					70.91
J Wood			79.38	52.86							132.24
C Daws3				21.00		6.40					27.40
Total			579.13	2993.25		1940.19			42.15	30.89	5585.61
Directors
A Hind (CEO)	72.30			534.24		656.36				3.44	1266.34
R Chapman	48.20		594.13	1399.80		239.66				35.53	2317.32
K Dibble	85.67		558.02	668.30		826.54					2138.53
N Allaway	53.20		156.28	118.90		25.00					1353.38
D Locke	290.72		715.91	2167.50		121.30					3295.43
Total	550.09		2024.34	5888.74		1868.86				38.97	10,371.00
Grand Total	550.09		2603.47	8881.99		3809.05			42.15	69.86	15,956.61

Explanatory notes on expenses information

The reported expenses include the cost of all travel, accommodation and other support services for Board Members, the Chief Executive and Directors. The variation in travel and accommodation expenses between Board Members reflects their respective time commitments and duties, the range of activities they undertake, the location of their homes and other individual factors. All Board Members, Directors and the Chief Executive are required to travel around the UK to some extent.

The Commission has four offices in England and Wales - London, Liverpool, Newport (Gwent) and Taunton. With the probable exception of the Chair and Chief Executive, the majority of Board members’ and Directors’ travel is between these offices.

Rail travel and accommodation are mainly booked through central agencies rather than by individuals who then claim the expense back. The costs shown, therefore, are those incurred by individuals rather than ‘expenses claimed’.

‘Subsistence’ covers the allowances payable for significant time out of the office and for overnight stays, at rates agreed with HMRC.

Where the Board and Directors attend key events that are organised centrally and through a ‘block booking’ by the Commission, eg where open Board meetings are held away from the London office, the accommodation and food costs are not included as, retrospectively, this would involve disproportionate resource and expense. Events of this type held in 2008-09 were open Board meetings in Liverpool and Swansea, the Charity Commission’s Annual Public Meeting in London and the Board’s away day in Hertfordshire. The cost of these would add around £500 in total to each individual’s accommodation / food costs.

1.Dame Suzi Leather is based in Devon and a further £9,092.47 was incurred in hotel and travel costs to allow her to fulfil her Charity Commission commitments in London, in line with her contract of employment.

2. Simon Jones is based in Cardiff and thus incurs higher levels of expenditure in order for him to attend London Board and Audit Committee meetings.

3. Christopher Daws is the Independent Member of the Commission's Audit Committee (a formal Board sub-Committee) and not an appointed Board member. His expenses are included here for completeness and transparency.

Andrew Hind and Kenneth Dibble travelled abroad on separate occasions with the Commission's International Programme - a project funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Andrew Hind's costs were Air £2805.30 and £282.06 hotel. Kenneth Dibble's were Air £1652.40 and £2348.51 hotel.