MPs’ pay will rise from £67,060 to £74,000, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has announced.
MPs worried about a major pubic outcry have called the decision by the independent watchdog’s decision to give MPs an 11% pay rise at a time when the public are tightening their belts, have called the decision “wholly inappropriate”.
The total bill for MPs’ expenses, including staffing costs, for 2012 rose to £98.1 million, nearly three million more than the £95.4 million bill from 2009.
Westminster MPs will be getting a pay rise may be getting a boost, but it is the added extras, expenses, resettlement grants, and gold-plated pensions where reform is needed.