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Senior Salaries Review Body (Report on Parliamentary Pay, Pensions and Allowances 2007)

The Leader of the House of Commons (Ms Harriet Harman): The SSRB proposes that increases in pay for Lords Ministers are aligned with that of increases in Commons Ministers’ pay in accordance with current practice. The Government accept this recommendation. It is proposed that Lords Ministers’ pay will be increased by 1.95 per cent. for 2007-08 in line with the proposed increase in MPs’ pay, and that from 1 April 2008, increases in Lords Ministers’ pay will be made via the same mechanism as for MPs and other Ministers. [Official Report, 16 January 2008, Vol. 470, c. 32WS.] Letter from Ms Harriet Harman: An error has been identified in the written ministerial statement tabled on the 16 January 2008. The written ministerial statement paragraph 19 should have read: ““The SSRB proposes that increases in pay for Lords Ministers are aligned with that of increases in Commons Ministers' pay in accordance with current practice. The Government accepts this recommendation. It is proposed that Lords Ministers' pay will be increased by 1.9 per cent. for 2007-08 in line with the proposed increase in MPs pay, and that from 1 April 2008, increases in Lords Ministers' pay will be made via the same mechanism as for MPs and other Ministers.””