Repeated controversies over salaries and allowance of MEPs are seen as a major factor in declining voter turnout, which has shrunk in every European election since the first in 1979.
Treasury figures have shown that the annual cost of a MEP sitting in the EU assembly is £1.79 million each a year, which is three times the cost of a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons.
The European Parliament, with 766 MEPs, cost £1.3 billion in 2012 – expenditure that was shared across the EU's members with a share of the annual bill for British taxpayers of £170 million.
In contrast, the combined cost of the House of Commons and House of Lords, with 650 MPs and around 720 active peers, was £494 million in the same period.
Part of the difference is salary: MEPs are considerably more highly paid than MPs, with a £80,000 per year, paid with low 23 per cent "community tax rates", compared with £66,396 for elected representatives in the Commons. Full story...
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Treasury figures have shown that the annual cost of a MEP sitting in the EU assembly is £1.79 million each a year, which is three times the cost of a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons.
The European Parliament, with 766 MEPs, cost £1.3 billion in 2012 – expenditure that was shared across the EU's members with a share of the annual bill for British taxpayers of £170 million.
In contrast, the combined cost of the House of Commons and House of Lords, with 650 MPs and around 720 active peers, was £494 million in the same period.
Part of the difference is salary: MEPs are considerably more highly paid than MPs, with a £80,000 per year, paid with low 23 per cent "community tax rates", compared with £66,396 for elected representatives in the Commons. Full story...
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