Telegraph database: find out if your MP is taking Ipsa's 11 per cent pay hike Of those who responded, 46 MPs said they would not accept the pay increase. Only one MP was prepared to say he would take the money while three said they had not yet decided. It came after David Cameron threatened to scrap Ipsa over its "unacceptable" proposals. The head of Parliament's spending watchdog has accused David Cameron and Ed Miliband of trying to kick the issue of MPs" pay into the long grass. The Prime Minister has threatened to scrap the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) after it recommended an 11 per cent pay rise for MPs. Mr Cameron said he is not ruling anything out if Ipsa does not back down. Ipsa has insisted that nearly half the public supported its plan to increase MPs" annual salaries from £66,396 to £74,000. The increase will come in after the general election in 2015. However, Ipsa insisted that pensions will be curbed and other benefits trimmed to ensure the overall changes are cost-neutral. Sir Ian Kennedy, the Ipsa chairman, said: "For the first time, MPs' pay and pensions will be set independently, and away from political deals cooked up in Westminster. We are sweeping away the out-of-date and overly generous benefits, and introducing a one-off uplift in pay. Crucially, thereafter MPs' pay will be linked to everyone else's. Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, told LBC 97.3 radio this morning the hike was "incomprehensible and wholly inappropriate" at a time when rises in the rest of the public sector were limited to 1 per cent. Labour leader Ed Miliband has also called for it to be dropped. Sir Ian said that a failure to increase MPs" pay could result in scandals like the one over parliamentary expenses. Writing in The Times, Sir Ian insisted he would not be deterred by pressure from politicians. He said: "I can see why some would want to wish the issue away, hoping we will do nothing or that a 'cross-party' review will provide the cover for kicking it into the long grass, just as happened with party funding years ago. Parliament was clear in the wake of the expenses scandal that it was wrong for MPs to set their own expenses, salary, pensions and benefits. That remains a position hard to argue with. We all know that MPs made a mess of these things for decades; the result was a disaster. We were given the job of tackling this issue independently for a reason. You are not independent if all you do is bend to the will of the Government or the Commons. Sir Ian said the plan will involve a one-off rise, with MPs' wages then increasing at a more measured pace in line with other workers, in a plan designed to fix the issue for a generation. Ipsa is planning a tougher-than-expected squeeze on MPs' pensions in a bid to cancel out the £4.6 million cost to the public purse. A £2.5 million saving by downgrading the final-salary scheme to career average - matching the rest of the public sector - had already been proposed alongside a crackdown on various perks. Sir Ian said: "Reform is long overdue. Some of the benefits are unjustifiable. The pensions are too generous, the old resettlement payments too handsome and some of the expenses need further tightening. But the pay. The interest so often comes back to pay. We are in no doubt - MPs' pay needs a one-off uplift. Whatever measure you choose - including international comparisons and historic trends - they all lead to the same conclusion: MPs' pay has fallen behind. It needs to catch up. We will announce a one-off pay rise. Thereafter MPs' pay will move with the pay of the rest of us. That's a sensible way forward, which we will implement after a further review of conditions in 2015. Despite some of the suggestions to the counter, this is also a good deal for taxpayers, as the overall package of reforms will not cost them a penny more. Compare the MPs" proposed salary of £74,000 a year with average earnings in other areas of work: Chief executives and senior government officials: £120,830 Marketing and sales directors: £82,866 Aeroplane pilots: £77,906 MPs" salary if the Ipsa recommendations are implemented: £74,000 Doctors: £69,741 MPs" current salary: £66,396 Air traffic controllers: £63,855 Senior police officers: £60,814 Actuaries, economists and statisticians: £60,672 HR managers: £54,229 Solicitors: £45,585 Train drivers: £43,843 Architects: £42,563 Barristers and judges: £40,242 Police officers at the rank of sergeant and below: £39,809 Army Captain: £38,463 Paramedics: £37,120 Chartered surveyors: £36,642 Journalists, newspaper and periodical editors: £35,213 Secondary school teachers: £33,274 Hotel managers and owners: £32,682 Driving instructors: £29,844 Midwives: £29,248 Probation officers: £28,871 Plumbers, heating and ventilation engineers: £28,262 Nurses: £25,970 Painters and decorators: £23,435 Farmers: £23,229 Bus and coach drivers: £22,411 Clergy: £21,489 Traffic warden: £20,526 Musicians: £19,974 Street cleaners: £18,303 Soldier: £17,767 Butchers: £17,384 Taxi drivers: £15,690 Beauticians: £12,562 Waiters and waitresses: £7,010 The average UK wage: £26,500