MPs were at the centre of a new pay row last night over plans to spend £1.5million on a fresh layer of Commons bureaucracy that would give some backbenchers a £13,000 salary hike.
Plans have been put forward to create new Commons committees with more staff, travel and accommodation costs, as well as extra pay for an elite group of MPs.
The huge package - to be formally proposed by Commons Leader Harriet Harman on Wednesday - includes a £1million network of eight new English 'regional committees' to oversee Labour's controversial English regional development agencies.
Each would be made up of nine MPs, including a chairman earning up to £13,713 on top of the normal MP's salary of about £62,000.
Ms Harman will also propose eight new 'grand committees' for the English regions outside London, at a cost of more than £300,000. The chairman of each would receive a pay-hike of up to £5,200.
Gordon Brown has specifically requested a new 'Speaker's Conference', costing an estimated £261,075 over the next two years, to try to increase election turn out and regenerate public interest in politics.
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All part of the EU driven plan which is going to split up the UK into seperate regions! They are just putting the structures in place!
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