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Article: Above-inflation pay rise for 13 in the Government; Bonanza: Harriet Harman voted against the rise but Tessa Jowell, centre, and Bridget Prentice, right, backed it in the Commons.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2008
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Byline: JOE MURPHY
THIRTEEN government members including Harriet Harman will get an inflation-busting pay rise next year, the Evening Standard can reveal.
They are among 26 London MPs whose Commons pay will increase by up to 9.4 per cent from 1 April under a deal voted through before the summer recess.
The cash bonanza flies in the face of the Government's official policy of pay restraint and will benefit ministers who have voted to hold down pay for police and nurses.
Altogether the MPs will get increases of about ?6,000 each next year, made up of the annual rise that all MPs receive plus a huge one-off increase in the pay top-up that MPs with London ...