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Members' Salaries, Pensions and Allowances

On these matters, the House is sovereign. It is possible for the House to decide on a framework, with primary legislation if necessary, to set the arrangements for making those decisions in future. The question is what mechanism would be appropriate, and what degree of independence would be appropriate. Of course, the House can always revisit any primary legislation and change it, but we are asking Sir John Baker to produce a proposal that sets up a comparator and a mechanism so that we will not have to vote on our pay in future.