How should MPs be paid?
For The One Show, Martin Bell has been taking a look at MPs' pay and .
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The committee looking at how MPs are paid have asked The One Show to send on to them viewers' suggestions and solutions to the tricky issue of MPs' pay and expenses.
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Martin Bell's suggestions include...
Firstly, MPs within commuting distance of London have to stop claiming public money for a second home. Their constituents commute, so they can commute as well.
Next, they have to stop employing their relatives - wives, children, and anyone else at public expense.
MPs need to start living frugally. They need to be held accountable for anything they list as "necessary expenses".
They need to see themselves as the people who should be setting an example and aim to be respected for that.
How should MPs be paid? Should they be under greater scrutiny? Should, for example, expenses just be scrapped and replaced with higher salaries? Have your say here.
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