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Ministers don’t understand ‘depth of anger’ on civil service pay
Parliamentary debate comes as Cabinet Office confirms pay freeze will apply to SCS
Exchequer secretary to the Treasury Kemi Badenoch (Parliament TV)
15 Dec 2020
The government has been accused of failing to recognise the impact of its continued pay restraint for public sector workers, which one MP has described as keeping some civil servants on pay close to welfare level.
Conservative backbenchers failed to take part in a Westminster Hall debate yesterday, which was triggered when two petitions calling for fairer public-sector pay passed the 100,000-signature mark. One of the petitions was launched by the PCS union and sought a 10% pay rise for staff to offset a decade of real-terms cuts for many.