MPs pay increase must not be more than police. We should not set our own pay!

Posted by harriet in Uncategorized | January 20th, 2008

This Thursday I will be leading the debate in the House of Commons before we MPs, vote on our pay increase. Just two important points

* We are paid from the public purse so we shouldn’t vote ourselves bigger increases than we are laying down for the rest of the public sector and

*we shouldn’t set our own pay increases. It should be done independently.

We will be asking MPs to vote to support both these points but it is a “free vote” and MPs of all parties will not be “whipped” to vote for it…..