Fire authority members representing York are set to be paid expenses of £1,100 each by City of York Council.

Council members sitting on the authority, which covers the whole of North Yorkshire, would each receive the money under plans discussed on Wednesday.

If councillors are elected to chair the authority, the amount would go up to £4,000, with £3,450 paid to anybody sitting on the steering group, a body which guides the authority's work.

The expenses are in line with amounts which would be paid by North Yorkshire County Council, which also has members sitting on the authority.

There are four York councillors on the authority, Councillors Bernard Bell and Richard Cregan, from the Labour party, and Councillors Mick Bradley and Jonathan Morley from the Liberal Democrat party.

They are responsible for overseeing a fire service budget of nearly £20 million.

Iain Phillips, City of York Council's assistant chief executive, said: "With the current responsibilities on the authority undertaken by City of York members, the cost to the authority in a full year of the proposed allowances would be £7,570.

"This cost would, of course, vary according to the roles undertaken by our members. The worst case scenario of having the chairperson and both steering group posts would cost almost £13,500, whereas if all four were just members the cost would be around £5,000."

The proposals follow an announcement in August that revised expenses had been drawn up for the city's councillors following a change to the new cabinet-style government of the city.