Only 25 MPs have given their £7,000 pay rise to charity

Update: The SNP has been in touch to point out that its MPs will donate the money to charity, they just haven't specified to which charities, due to the amount of requests they've had in their constituencies.

It has emerged that only 25 out of Westminster's 650 MPs have given their recent £7,000 pay rise to charity.

The report by The Sun found that 69 MPs pledged to donate their controversial pay rises to charitable causes when the rise went into effect in July.

The ten per cent pay rise means MPs now earn £74,000, up from £67,000 - at a time when public sector workers are facing pay caps of one per cent increases and the government is doing its best to scrap tax credits for working families.

The rise was recommended and implemented by the government's independent watchdog, which meant it went through automatically - but all of the party leaders told their MPs to give it away as a mark of solidarity.

69 MPs publicly pledged to give the extra £7,000 away to good causes, but The Sun found that only the following MPs could confirm they had actually done so:

Labour

• Yvette Cooper
• Norman Coaker
• Jo Cox
• Neil Coyle
• Jack Dromey
• Ivan Lewis
• Gloria de Pietro
• Gisela Stewart
• Conor McGinn
• Andy Slaughter

Conservative

• Nicola Blackwood
• Maria Caulfield
• Jason McCartney
• Kevin Foster
• Richard Fuller
• Nicky Morgan
• Paul Maynard
• David Mowat
• Andrew Percy
• Dominic Raab
• Andrew Stephenson
• Chris White

Liberal Democrats

• Nick Clegg
• Tim Farron

Green

• Caroline Lucas

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