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Article: 'Cheated' MPs' anger over pay
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 7, 1995
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COLIN BROWN
Chief Political Correspondent
Tory MPs complained last night they felt "cheated" over a
Government attempt to limit MPs' annual pay increase to 2.7 per
cent, about pounds 17 extra per week.
Some are outraged that senior civil servants, to whom their pay
is linked, will be eligible for an extra 2 per cent in
performance-related bonuses denied to MPs. Members will be told
about their rise by the Leader of the House, Tony Newton.
The linkage between MPs and a senior grade of the civil service
was an attempt to defuse the controversy over them voting pay rises
for themselves.
But MPs thought they would get the pay rise which the civil
servants secured, not part of it.
Jerry Hayes, ...