Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Tony Lloyd (Labour), on Monday, 14 May 2012, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 106 members in total.

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LOCALISATION OF PUBLIC SECTOR PAY

That this House notes the Chancellor of the Exchequer'sdecision to give Government departments freedom to localise public sector pay; believes this will undermine pay review bodies by shifting wholesale to local bargaining in the public sector; further believes pay review bodies nationally are a better way of delivering flexibility while keeping a lid on costs; considers the Government's plans will set hospital against hospital and school against school; opposes unfair discrimination against nurses, teachers and civil servants according to where they live when they are doing the same job; recognises that many successful large national companies use national pay bargaining for their staff pay; further recognises that with record unemployment and more than five jobseekers per job vacancy across the UK there is little evidence the public sector is crowding out the private sector; further believes this policy will offer nothing to private sector workers in low pay regions; fears this policy will instead remove substantial sums from the regions and devolved nations with the least, and reduce spending power and harm local economies as a consequence; and calls on the Government to suspend this policy until a full and independent assessment takes place on the economic impact of the policy and to engage meaningfully with all stakeholders affected by this policy across the UK prior to implementation.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

55 

Session

2012-13

Other sponsors

John Healey

Alun Michael

Lord Watts

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield

Ian Swales

Subjects

Local government Pay

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk