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Members' Salaries, Pensions and Allowances

We are getting into some real complications. It might seem straightforward to say that we will invent an independent mechanism to take care of the matter, but the fact is that there is no reliable comparator for the work of a Member of Parliament. It is a job that requires no formal qualifications, and there is an over-supply of people who want to do it. All that we are saying is that we want the judgment—it will involve a judgment, not a technical comparator—to be made by someone else. What we cannot work out, however, is who that should be.