Poll: Should MPs be getting a pay rise?
David Cameron is urging the body which sets MPs' pay to reconsider proposals for a 10% rise due to take place within a matter of months. What do you think?
A final review by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) is expected to confirm the £7,000 rise - from £67,060 to £74,000 - later this year.
If it does go through - following a consultation over the summer - it will be back-dated to May 8, the day after the general election.
But the Prime Minister's official spokesman said that Mr Cameron remained opposed to the hike, at a time when the Government is imposing restraints on public sector pay.
"He wants Ipsa to reconsider," the PM's spokesman told reporters at a regular Westminster media briefing. "Ipsa has a statutory responsibility to do so at the start of this Parliament before this comes into effect.
"He very much urges it to take the opportunity it now has to come to a different view. We are in a period of ongoing public sector pay restraint."
Jonathan Isaby of the TaxPayers' Alliance pressure group said Ipsa had failed to restore public confidence in the system of MPs' pay and should be abolished.
"To press ahead with a 10% pay rise is not only putting two fingers up at voters, but it starkly contradicts the pay restraint required elsewhere in the public sector if the Government is to balance the nation's books," he said.
