Everything you need to know about MPs and their pay rise

MPs are almost certain to see their pay increase by almost ten per cent next year.

The head of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), Marcial Boo, who himself gets paid £120,000, said the £67,000 MPs currently receive was a "miserly amount".

He wants MPs, as of next May, to receive annual salaries of £74,000.

They are there to represent us all - to form laws, to send young people to war.

It is not an easy thing to do. We want to have good people doing the job and they need to be paid fairly. Now, that's not paid in excess but it's not being paid a miserly amount either.

• Marcial Boo, speaking to *the Sunday Telegraph*.

When the ten per cent pay rise was first mooted by Ipsa - set up in the wake of the expenses scandal so MPs no longer determined their own pay - the main party leaders said such an increase was unacceptable at a time when most public sector pay rises were capped at one per cent.

But Ipsa has stuck to its guns and although the ten per cent pay rise is subject to one final review next May, the watchdog is extremely unlikely to change its mind.

This is frustrating news for all other public sector workers, but very welcome news for makers of duck houses and, presumably, ducks. Oh, and MPs.

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