A Government minister who is paid £115,824 has said the cost-of-living rise will be “tricky” for his household, on the same day he is set to receive a pay rise of £2,212. MPs salaries rise to £84,144 on April 1, up by 2.7%, after the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) announced last month that salaries would go up for the first time in two years.
But it comes on the same day that the biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory has come into effect, and days before national insurance contributions will increase by 1.25 percentage points. Speaking on Sky News, policing minister Kit Malthouse acknowledged it would be “very tough”.
“We completely acknowledge that a combination of factors has meant that prices are rising significantly, energy prices in particular, driven by a variety of factors – post-pandemic, the war in Ukraine, other kinds of global factors outside of our immediate control – and it is tough,” he said.
