ANOTHER FALSE SCANDEL ABOUT THE ASSEMBLY

Assembly members do not set their own pay rates. That’s done by the Remuneration Board.

The Remuneration Board is an independent Board, set up in 2010 to look at Assembly Members’ pay and allowances. The Board’s main job is making sure AMs have the right resources for doing their jobs properly.

The Board was established by the National Assembly for Wales Remuneration Measure 2010. It is chaired by Dame Dawn Primarolo, DBE. It was one of 108 recommendations made by the Independent Review Panel on Assembly Members’ Pay and Allowances in its report of July 2009.

Recent articles in the news media have sought to frame this as a controversial issue and as further proof that the Assembly is a costly and unnecessary layer of Government.

If you think that go and have a look at what’s happening to Health and Social Services in England, check how close the private company that owned Cardiff airport were to bankrupting it when it was bought by the Assembly, look with even a slightly open eye at what’s happening to Education in England, and remember that Michael Gove as Education Minister had no objection to Academies and Free Schools being profit making.