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// Cabinet ministers have been quietly approving hefty pay rises for some of their own special advisers while freezing or imposing sub-inflation increases on the pay of millions of other civil servants and public sector workers, official figures show.
Philippa Stroud, a special adviser to Duncan Smith, saw her pay increase last year by even more: a 36% rise from £69,250 to £94,000 last year. //
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Nurses get their 1% pay rise blocked, while advisors get 36%. surely this is entirely the wrong message?
(Iain Duncan Smith's performance lately has been lamentable. A pay cut rather than a rise for his advisors would be more appropriate, would it not?)
Philippa Stroud, a special adviser to Duncan Smith, saw her pay increase last year by even more: a 36% rise from £69,250 to £94,000 last year. //
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Nurses get their 1% pay rise blocked, while advisors get 36%. surely this is entirely the wrong message?
(Iain Duncan Smith's performance lately has been lamentable. A pay cut rather than a rise for his advisors would be more appropriate, would it not?)
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Apologies factor-fiction, I did not mean to mislead, I was going off this...
// NHS staff have been told by Jeremy Hunt not to expect any further pay increase for three years.
The Health Secretary also warned the planned 1% increase for April 2014 may not go ahead unless the unions accepted an end to automatic pay hikes linked to length of service.
He told MPs that nurses, doctors and the 1.3million other NHS workers would not get any more than a 1% rise until March 2016. //
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// NHS staff have been told by Jeremy Hunt not to expect any further pay increase for three years.
The Health Secretary also warned the planned 1% increase for April 2014 may not go ahead unless the unions accepted an end to automatic pay hikes linked to length of service.
He told MPs that nurses, doctors and the 1.3million other NHS workers would not get any more than a 1% rise until March 2016. //
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