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SALTER SAYS:
“IT’S TIME TO STOP MPs VOTING ON THEIR OWN PAY” Reading West MP, Martin Salter, has been campaigning in the House of Commons to change the rules to prevent MPs from being able to vote themselves a pay rise. At Business Questions on Thursday (17th January 2008) Mr Salter asked the following question of the Leader of House, and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman: Martin Salter (Reading, West) (Lab): I welcome yesterday’s statement by the Leader of the House on the SSRB report, particularly the intention to end once and for all the invidious practice of allowing MPs to vote on their own salaries. Will she clarify for the House the exact timetable for implementing the future framework for MPs salaries, and for the ending of our ability to vote ourselves a pay rise? It is important. Harriet Harman replied: Ms Harman: I shall set out the procedure and the timetable. Next Thursday, the House will be able to debate our proposals for the pay rate that will apply to us as Members of Parliament from April 2007 to April 2008. The House will also have before it a motion that the Government have tabled to establish the process of the review by Sir John Baker. It expresses the intent to come back to the House before it rises for the summer recess with the mechanics and procedure whereby we will never again have to do what is unacceptable both to Members and to members of the public—vote for our own pay increases. Speaking afterwards, Mr Salter said: “MPs have to give up the right to set their own pay, it is not an option open to anyone else and in the current climate where pay for police, nurses, teachers and other public sector workers is being constrained in order to tackle inflation, it is right and proper that the same rules apply to MPs. I have long argued that MPs’ wages should be set by an independent body and linked to a registered salary scale which could not be amended by either the House of Commons or the government. This is what happens in many other countries and I am delighted that Harriet Harman has made it clear that we are shortly to adopt a similar system.” In her statement to the House of Commons on the 2007 Senior Salary Review Body (SSRB), Harriet Harman said: MPs and Ministers are paid by the public purse. The Government is committed to ensuring that public sector pay awards remain consistent with the continued achievement of the inflation target of 2 per cent. The Government believes that the principles that apply to public sector pay deals should also apply to MPs to entrench economic stability by holding down inflationary expectations and helping to maintain the economic stability we have seen over the past decade. This statement sets out a summary of the Government’s position, which proposes that changes to MPs’ pay and pensions are consistent with the outcomes sought elsewhere in the public sector The Government believes that there should be a clear, transparent and independent mechanism for setting the pay and pension of MPs. It is inappropriate that MPs should vote on their own pay and pensions. The Government therefore intends to examine options that find objective criteria for determining the appropriate comparator used for MPs’ pay awards within a framework that does not require MPs to vote in future years, and accordingly has asked Sir John Baker, CBE the retiring chair of SSRB to conduct a review and make proposals on options for consideration. It would be a significant constitutional reform for MPs to be explicitly removed from the process of voting on and determining their own pay and pensions. In some other countries, elected representatives’ pay and pensions are determined entirely independently of the legislature. We hope to draw on this international experience so as to find a suitable mechanism that will work within our parliamentary system. We intend this work to be completed so that the House can resolve it before the summer recess. Mr Salter has made it clear that when the Commons votes on this matter for the last time on the 24th January he will support limiting the MPs’ pay rise to 1.9% - the same as for the police. www.politicaleditor.co.uk |
