Pay increase for MPs
Date published: 01 March 2018
MPs’ basic pay for 2018-19 will increase by 1.8%, rising from £76,011 to £77,379, from 1 April 2018.
Annual changes in MPs’ pay are linked to changes in average earnings in the public sector using Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures.
Rochdale MP Tony LLoyd said: “It is right and proper that MPs have no influence over their own pay and that this is fixed by an independent body.
“However, the reality is that this government has kept down the pay of people working in the public sector as well as pensions and other benefits. The Chancellor has got to look at this again to deliver fairness at a time of rising prices.”
Heywood & Middleton MP Liz McInnes said: "The salaries of Members of Parliament are independently set, and it is absolutely right that MPs have no say whatsoever in deciding their own pay."
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