Andrew Gwynne MP

Labour MP for Denton and Reddish

Shadow Health Minister

Chancellor attacked over plans to pay constituents in Denton and Reddish less

Andrew has reacted angrily to the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Autumn Statement, that the Government will look at introducing regulations to introduce statutory regional pay differentials. This was one of a raft of announcements made in the House of Commons today, including a 1% cap on the pay rises for teachers, doctors, nurses, police officers and other key workers for two years after the end of current freeze next year.

Andrew Gwynne MP said:

“The Chancellor is wrong to say that there should be legal regional pay differentials.  It is clearly unfair for someone who does a job in Denton & Reddish to be paid less than someone doing the same job in another region. People in my constituency already suffer from lower than average wages and shouldn’t have to pay the price for the government’s failed economic policies by having even more money taken out their wage packet.”    

“This all marks a truly colossal failure in the Chancellor’s economic plans.  Growth is flatlining and will be down this year, next year and the year after. Unemployment is now rising. And the government are well over £100bn more borrowing than the chancellor planned a year ago - more borrowing that the plan which the chancellor inherited at the last general election.As a result his economic and fiscal strategy is in tatters."