Will Hutton: Public Sector Workers

The Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered an inquiry into the pay of public sector workers, including NHS managers, in an attempt to improve fairness.

Mr Cameron has stated: "The idea is to improve fairness in the public sector and say that, between the lowest paid and highest paid in the public sector, there shouldn't be a difference of more than 20 times.

"In any organisation in the public sector, the highest paid shouldn't be paid more than 20 times the lowest paid. It may mean lifting the lowest paid, it may mean reducing the pay of the highest paid, but it will make our country and our public services fairer."

Will Hutton's work was previously used to shape the policies of Tony Blair's Labour government. David Cameron has also consulted Labour MP Frank Field about poverty, signalling a desire to extend his government outside of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

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