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Members' Salaries, Pensions and Allowances

The hon. Gentleman is on to an important point. Every hon. Member finds the issue of voting on pay uncomfortable. We need to ensure that when Sir John Baker produces his report there are two possible alternatives before the House, so that we, as Members of Parliament, can take the best way forward, and take away the question that is so often raised, and with which we so often struggle. Surely it must be in the House's interest, and therefore in the Government's interest, to accept amendment (c), which I understand is signed by three members of the Commission, to which we are referring all such matters anyway.