Pay rise priorities

INSTEAD of a universal pay cap for civil servants, we should put the public services in order of priority — top of the list for a salary increase must be doctors, nurses, police and firemen. This could be funded by reducing the salaries, bonuses and expenses of the paper pushers.

M. H. VAN DIGGELEN, Bognor Regis, W. Sussex. THE Chancellor has described public sector workers as overpaid. Remind me, in which sector are MPs? MERVYN WILLIAMS, Huddersfield, W. Yorks.