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To: David Cameron
No pay rise for MPs during austerity
We call on David Cameron to ensure that the salaries of MPs this year and in the future will only increase by the same percentage rate as for public sector workers, taking whatever measures are necessary eg passing a law to scrap IPSA.
Resettlement payments for MPs should also be immediately scrapped: MPs are no different to many workers who are on fixed term contracts, and who do not receive resettlement payments.
Why is this important?
It has been reported that MPs who were only elected last week are set to receive a backdated 10 per cent pay rise worth £7,000 within months. A review of MPs salaries is taking place in the next few weeks, and the review is likely to rubber stamp a finding from 2013 which was that MPs' pay should increase from £67,060 to £74,000.
The review is being conducted by IPSA (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority), who are Parliament's expenses watchdog.
Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "To press ahead with a 10 per cent pay rise is not only putting two fingers up at voters, but it starkly contradicts the pay restraint required elsewhere in the public sector if the government is to balance the nation's books. The only way to stop the salary increase is by Mr Cameron passing a law in the House of Commons to scrap Ipsa altogether."
(The above as reported in The Telegraph)
If "we are all in it together" then MPs should not have a 10% pay rise when public sector pay has been frozen for years.
