Regional Pay

Part of Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 4:34 pm on 20 June 2012.

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Photo of Rachel Reeves Rachel Reeves Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury 4:34, 20 June 2012

I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. Indeed, a 1% pay reduction for public sector workers in the south-west would cost that region £140 million a year.

If the Government were to achieve their objective of reducing pay to what they say is the equivalent in the private sector, a real-terms cut in pay, year after year for a decade or more, would be needed. It is no wonder, then, that people are worried and are calling on the Government to come clean on what their plans really are. It is no wonder that people think this is a deliberate attack on public sector workers and on the parts of the country that have already been hardest hit by the recession.