Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when allowances for members of Scientific Advisory Committees were last reviewed; and what are the differential rates of allowances for every relevant department’s committees in the 2017–18 financial year.

Allowances for members of Science Advisory Committees are set by the government department that sponsors them. There has been no recent cross-government review of allowances. Information on differentials between allowances is not held by the Government Office for Science.