I'm not sure many would miss the AFPRB. The whole idea of the AFPRB dealing with the 'total remuneration package' was shot to pieces when they were excluded from Pay 2000, 2 x rounds of pension changes, the backdoor ToS changes ahead of JPA and then NEM. Beyond that we have the whole annual theatre of The Treasury setting the money for any pay award several months ahead of the Board under the autumn spending review. A genius move by HMT that ensured even the service chiefs would petition against any pay increase above that set rate, otherwise they would have to rob money from other areas of defence spending to fill the gap.
All we are left with is a quango that does the 'fronting-up' to the troops when in truth they have next to zero control. On the exceptionally few occasions that they have exercised the tiny influence they have (x-factor a few years back and the recent pay round) they lost a chairman on the first count and shotgunned the MoD coffers on the second, whilst leaving those serving little or no idea as to their pay or charges for months.
They should tell it like it really is:
The Treasury produces a simple note on the pay award the preceding autumn without any thought of the consequences and that, in turn, is what the Armed Forces will get the following year. Another, albeit longer note, will then be written several months later with evidence of poor morale, difficult recruitment and appalling retention rates. A few months after that another note will announce that we are below manning target finally another note will be produced to articulate how our military capability is degraded. Again. Rinse-and-repeat.