MPS are to receive an Inflation creeping 2.8 percent payment on the rise this year – TAking their salaries nearly £ 94,000.
The Independent parliamentary standards (IPSA), set up in the echo Scandal costsHe said the move will reflect the “vital role” of the representative.
But the increase comes as MPs prepare for voting on moves that will see the estimated one million People with disabilities He will lose his advantages, after childbirth took an ax on ballooning in the UK Bill.
Even before the salary rise has been confirmed Critics said it would be a “bitter tablet” for Taxpayers For swallowing and representatives are rewarded due to failure.
But IPSA He said that the move was in line with government’s payment recommendations for workers in the public sector.
IPSA is obliged to review the salary of the MP in the first year of the new parliament and said that it would advise on the payment of a parliamentary term in the next few months.
The increase will take the annual salary of the MoE to £ 93,904, which increases from 91,346 pounds.
The community is expected to vote in favor of plans by the Secretary of Labor and Pensions Liz Kendall, focused on savings £ 5 billion to 2030. Years, It will fall a lot to pay personal independence (PIP) by raising the threshold for qualification.
Charitable organizations, trade unions and left handed employers branded changes, while welcoming for other moves, including a decision not to freeze the PIP level and end regular assessments for those with severe disabilities.
When the increase in the payment of the representative was first proposed last month, the Executive Director of Taxpayers, “said,” This will be a bitter pill for ingestions given the days of politicians of both front benches for years have jamed the living standards of taxpayers.
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“MPs are guilty of providing a record high tax burden, permanent inflation and combat service, but are now being rewarded for this catalog of failure.
“Payment to politicians should be strictly related to the country’s economic performance, ideal to actual living standards that measures GDP per capita.”
At the beginning of the last parliament, in 2019. years, MPs paid EUR 79,468.
When the proposed payment growth was published for the first time, there was something above the then 2.5 percent inflation rate.
Since then, however,Inflation has risen to 3 percent.
The official spokesman of the Prime Minister said that the MPS do not have the power to accept or refuse to increase the payment, pointing out that IPSA is independent. “But it is obvious on every MP of what they do with their salary,” said the spokesman.
He added that the government continued freezing at the ministerial salary established since 2010. years.