He also received a special lodging allowance until a house could be provided for him two years later.

OSCE will provide board and lodging allowance (BLA).

The charity was to help the sick poor, who were to provide a certificate of need from a respectable person or parish officer, entitling them to a weekly lodgings allowance of 5s, subject to medical supervision.

It was further rumoured that George Hampton received a lodging allowance for the position, an allowance to which he was entitled by regulations but did not need since he lived with his father at Government House.

Both Griffiths and the Audit Commission were critical of this expenditure which, they argued, cut across the declared policy of promoting community care, and in 1991, in accordance with the Griffiths proposals, responsibility for board and lodging allowances will pass from the DSS to local authorities.