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Salaries for a Capable and Committed Government

Hansard, 2012-01-17

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Britain has the same challenges. Low official salaries topped up by generous benefits. Just now, Mr Faisal Manap says, "Well, because they live in London. That's why they are given these benefits". That is the explanation. The reality is they are given these benefits because they could not be given the pay and so it was presented as benefits and the understanding was these are claims you can make and so long as you submit some piece of paper, well, we would pay the claims. Because this is just a way to work the system so that you can be paid what you really truly need to be paid. And the MPs took it literally. They submitted claims for maintaining the swans in their ponds, for cleaning up the moat of their castle. Somebody submitted the claim because he was watching some exciting movie in his home. And when all these came out, there was a humongous scandal and they have to chop all that down. And now they have a very serious problem because now they cannot pay MPs via this route, neither can they raise the MPs' allowance because MP's standing has sunk rock bottom in people's esteem.

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