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  MP's remuneration - First package of reforms - rejected
  
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  The majority of MPs voted against accepting the first package of reforms on their pay and expenses as stated in the following motion:[1]
  
  ** This House notes [http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm74/7416/7416.asp Sir John Baker's Review of Parliamentary Pay and Allowances (Cm 7416)], and is of the opinion that the recommendations in the Review for the annual salary of a Member of this House to be increased by reference to a linkage to the Public Sector Average Earnings Index combined with regular reviews of the salary and the link should be implemented, such that--
  * from 1st April 2008 and from 1st April of each subsequent year a Member's salary should be increased by the percentage increase in the 3 month average Public Sector Average Earnings Index for January of that year relative to the figure for January of the previous year;
  * the SSRB should conduct a review of Members' salaries in the first year of each new Parliament unless such a review has taken place within the preceding two years;
  * an additional salary payable to a Member under Resolutions of this House in respect of service as a chairman of select or general committees should be changed by the same percentage and from the same time as the salary of a Member.
  
  They had also turned down a change to this motion, which would have capped any pay rises to 2.3%.[2]
  
  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-07-03a.1061.0#g1061.2 Harriet Harman MP], House of Commons, 3 July 2008
  * [2] [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2008-07-03&number=250 MP's remuneration - cap at 2.3% -rejected], House of Commons Division, 3 July 2008
  
  
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