Make the most of your 1% pay rise chaps & chapesses, can't see many further rises for a while.
At the risk of being a complete doom merchant, Osborne is vehemently against the principle of incremental pay - aren't the armed forces one if the only public sector bodies still to receive it? And how much did UK forces being in Afghanistan back in 2010 play into the decision to exempt us at the time of the last CSR ? And I wonder if the Afghan dividend will see that previous decision reversed - pay freezes and no increments?
It's already been done for pay on promotion under NEM (mark time for 2 years as you grow in to the new rank) so what's to stop it happening for everyone for a couple of years on top of a pay freeze?