MPs given go ahead for 10% pay rise to £74,000

[maureenho]

MPs given go ahead for 10% pay rise to £74,000

MPs' salaries will rise from £67,060 to £74,000, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has announced.

The 10% pay rise has been approved despite Downing Street and a succession of MPs saying it was "not appropriate".

IPSA chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said that MPs' pay had been a "toxic" issue "which had been ducked for decades".

He said the pay rise would not cost any money because it was being combined with cuts to expenses, pension and severance payments for MPs.

The independent watchdog, set up to bring in and run a new expenses and pay system for MPs after the expenses scandal of 2009, says in future MPs' pay would rise in line with average rises in the public sector.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33552499

[annie]

&all other public sector workers have theirs capped at 1%!!!