Appendices 3-4

Travel & Accommodation

Choose the payment that matches your situation: living away from home, travelling daily, or returning home during periodic leave.

Which payment applies?

I live away from homeUse Accommodation & Retainers.
I travel to site each dayUse Daily Travel Allowance.
I lodge and travel home on leaveUse Periodic Travel.
A worker whose normal travel time from home to the nearest project park-and-ride exceeds one hour will normally be expected to lodge, subject to agreement with the employer.

Accommodation & retainer calculator

Accommodation day£50.81
Accommodation week£355.67
Retainer day£14.92 or £8.60
Accommodation£355.67
Retainer rate£14.92 / day
Retainer£0.00
Combined estimate£355.67
When an eligible worker is sick during a work period and must remain in accommodation, the allowance may continue for up to 14 days as a special arrangement.

Daily travel allowance calculator

Taxable/day£5.78
Tax-free/day£1.38
Published total/day£7.16
Total for site days£35.80
Table 1 is normally for local workers more than eight miles from park and ride who do not receive accommodation allowance, subject to exceptions. No allowance is payable when unavailable for work or arriving late/leaving early without permission.

Periodic travel-time calculator

Workers receiving accommodation allowance are granted twelve paid weekend home visits each year.

Paid time4.0 hours
Basic rate£29.34 / hour
JourneyReturn journey
Travel-time payment£117.36
Rail and air fares are not estimated. Payment depends on working to normal finishing time before leave and returning on time after leave.

Published daily travel bands

MilesOwn taxableOwn tax-freeOwn totalBus total
Over 2-8£0.00£0.00£0.00£0.00
Over 8-11£3.53£0.00£3.53£2.33
Over 11-14£5.78£1.38£7.16£4.65
Over 14-17£9.63£1.98£11.34*£7.54
Over 17-20£10.41£4.52£14.93£9.87
Over 20-25£12.02£6.14£18.16£24.08
Over 25-30£13.30£7.41£20.71£27.26
Over 30-35£14.37£8.45£22.82£30.46
Over 35£15.35£9.46£24.81£33.28

*The printed total for 14-17 miles does not equal the two printed components.

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