Even cutting, say, a quarter of the ministerial element of pay would still leave a cabinet minister earning around £120,000, comfortably in the top 2% of earners.
Under the expected plans, Cameron would receive a 5% pay rise when his frozen ministerial element is taken into account, with his total package increasing from £142,500 to £149,440.
HMG supports NATO Membership Action Plans (MAPs) for Georgia and Ukraine but, in an effort to maintain allied unity, is preparing a compromise "Bucharest Implementation Plan" for the December NATO Ministerial that will contain the elements of a MAP.
Kenneth Clarke, the justice secretary, is to chair a meeting of fellow justice ministers in April to agree on a ministerial declaration, which will have three elements: Immediate steps that the court can take to reduce the backlog of cases, which now stands at 152,800.
Members of the Conservative party who may soon receive ministerial salaries will have both the ministerial and MP elements of their salaries frozen, a Tory spokeswoman said.
"If we win the election and form the next government, incoming ministers will inherit the ministerial salaries that the government is setting today, including the MP element," she said.
The reforms are also likely to give new powers to parliamentary select committees to hold senior officials to account.There is an element in all this of wanting to shift the blame for ministerial mis-hits, such as a proposed holiday from national-insurance payments for small firms, which has had low take-up.
The structural elements of the evaluation procedure are aligned to article 1 of the "Prime Ministerial Decree" regarding 'Projects for the social and cultural regeneration of decaying urban areas' (15 October 2015) in order to identify the type of intervention allowable for financing provided in the Decree.
I think there are some radical elements in here but I don't want us to fundamentally change the system from ministerial accountability with a permanent civil service to some different French or American system".
He said: "I think there are some radical elements in here but I don't want us to fundamentally change the system from ministerial accountability with a permanent civil service to some different French or American system".
Although the royal curia continued to exist as an aggregate of favourites, magnates, prelates, and advisers, its ministerial element comprising salaried officers serving at the king's pleasure functioned increasingly in departments.
