Gavin McFarlane of Temple Chambers Cardiff expresses his opinion of the recently-published report of the Parliamentary Work and Pensions Select Committee
There is an almost breathtaking impertinence about the tone of the recently-published third report of the Parliamentary Work and Pensions Select Committee. It was only last autumn that our political masters in the House of Commons voted by a majority to give themselves a whopping boost in value to their own parliamentary pensions by around a 30% uplift. This was achieved by granting themselves 1/60th in respect of each year's service in Parliament as opposed to the 1/80th which had previously been the case. The less favourable figure of 1/80th is what generally applies throughout the whole of the public sector but this did not deter the MPs who voted for the...
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Gavin McFarlane of Temple Chambers Cardiff expresses his opinion of the recently-published report of the Parliamentary Work and Pensions Select Committee
There is an almost breathtaking impertinence about the tone of the recently-published third report of the Parliamentary Work and Pensions Select Committee. It was only last autumn that our political masters in the House of Commons voted by a majority to give themselves a whopping boost in value to their own parliamentary pensions by around a 30% uplift. This was achieved by granting themselves 1/60th in respect of each year's service in Parliament as opposed to the 1/80th which had previously been the case. The less favourable figure of 1/80th is what generally applies throughout the whole of the public sector but this did not deter the MPs who voted for the...
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