And tributes to Sir Peter Hall, one of the greatest figures in the history british theatre, whos died at the age of 86. Well be talking to sir trevor nunn. Its 5. 00. Our main story is that the cap on Public Sector pay rises is to be lifted, but only for police and prison officers in england and wales. Union leaders have responded angrily, by demanding a pay rise for all Public Sector workers, whove been affected by a combination of pay freezes and pay caps for the past seven years. Ministers are said to be ready to show flexibility in the Public Sector pay round for next year. Lets take a look at the figures. Prison officers in england and wales have been awarded a rise of 1. 7 . As far as Police Officers are concerned, their salaries will go up by 1 , and theyll also get a further 1 bonus. The current current level of inflation is nearly 3 . Speaking at the tuc congress in brighton, laboursjeremy corbyn says the government is trying to divide and rule Public Sector workers. Our Political Correspondent iain watson sent this report. Police and prison officers vital parts of the criminal justice system. The governments announced that they are getting a pay increase, but the Public Service unions see themselves as the victims of an injustice, a pay cap thats held back wages for seven years. Today the government signalled it was willing to relax its pay restraint. Its vitally important for the success of our Public Services that we pay Public Sector workers fairly, and also that retain people, that we keep them in the profession and we are able to recruit new people as well. Usually pay review bodies stick to government advice and dont recommend average increases above 1 , but the bodies governing police and prison officers said the government should breach its own cap this year. The government has accepted a recommendation to increase the salaries of most Police Officers by 1 across the board, and then a further 1 as a bonus, paid for from Police Reserve budgets. Prison officers will get a cap busting1. 7 . Its simply not good enough. Anything under the rate of inflation, which is currently 2. 90 , is a cut in pay for my members, lets be absolutely clear about that, so its not good enough. The government is arguing that in effect the pay cap will be lifted more widely next year. Ministers will give pay review bodies flexibility to pay more than 1 to address skills shortages in some areas. The government will hope that easing the pay cap wont simply help with recruitment and retention problems in some parts of the Public Sector they hope it will also ease a sense of frustration amongst some Public Service workers about falling Living Standards. But some unions say any increase beneath inflation means theres still a case for strike action. We will carry on balloting our members and we will talk to other unions who will hopefully do the same, so that we can stand united, whether you are a cleaner, a benefit worker or a teacher, we all deserve a pay rise. And speaking to the tuc, the labour leader said if he won power he would lift the pay cap entirely. The labour party totally rejects the tories attempt to divide and rule, to play one sector off against another. A Labour Government will end the Public Sector pay cap and give all workers the pay rise they deserve, and so desperately need. That is our policy. And labours shadow chancellor said hed back strikes over wages if theyre democratically decided, so clear dividing lines remain between the government and opposition on pay. Ian watson, bbc news, brighton. Our Political Correspondent leila nathoo is at westminster. First of all, this sense of maybe more flexibility in the system next year, what should people read into that . I think it is the beginning of the end of the automatic cap on Public Sector pay rises being set at 1 . This year we had the recommendation of independent pay bodies. The final once but their recommendations for bird were for police and prison officers and the government has decided to accept their recommendations to give pay rises above that 1 cap. But next year there will be a new set of independent recommendations from pay bodies and it is they are there will bea bodies and it is they are there will be a strong signal the pay cap will no longer be in force. That does not mean Public Sector workers across the board will be given an automatic pay rise next year but it does mean that automatic limit and restriction of 1 we have had in force for a long time has come to an end. Labour are picking up on the fact it is just prison and Police Officers that have that pay right about 1 this year. They are calling for a pay rise for Public Sector workers gcioss rise for Public Sector workers across the board. We have heard unions talking about the level not being enough when inflation stands at 2. 9 . Certainly there is some Significant Movement from the government here. It gives substantial pressure since the election we are seeing unions coordinating strike action over the issue but i dont think this is the end of the argument as far as the level and extent of pay rises for Public Sector workers. Of all the rationale given by ministers behind the policy since 2010, really, it has been austerity and the need to get public spending under control. If people are asking now, reasonably, where is this money coming from . What is the answer . The key thing is there is no extra money to fund these pay increases. The money for this extra 1 bonus for police, 1. 7 paper prison officers is coming from existing departmental budgets. Police chiefs say this will result in cuts elsewhere. From ministers point of view they say we are prepared to give portability but must operate within what is fair and affordable for the taxpayer. Certainly this idea there is no extra money to fund these pay increases is certainly going to be a Sticking Point for some time. Thank you very much. The latest from westminster. Now we go to our studio in westminster to talk to steve white. He is chairman of the Police Federation, the Staff Association for police constables, representing well over 100,000 members of the force. Thank you for coming in. Are you delighted with this announcement today what . Absolutely not. Talking about the removal of the pay cap, i dont think this is the removal but it is sitting at a jaunty angle. When i have been listening to the reaction of my members in the last few hours, and they are frankly gobsmacked. Whilst i think we accept that 1 plus a 1 bonus is better than nothing, it doesnt go anywhere near redressing the balance that our members have suffered over the past five years. A 15 real terms pay cut that was beginning to look like 23 if this had continued. 0ne that was beginning to look like 23 if this had continued. One of the things i think people certainly from a Police Officer perspective find frustrating, it is all very well listening to the tuc and unions, but Police Officers do not have industrial rights. We cannot make oui industrial rights. We cannot make our voice heard in any other way but by taking an evidence case to the so called independent pay review body. In fact, the government could have taken all of the recommendations from the pay review body but have chosen to cherry pick. I dont think the government can haveit i dont think the government can have it both ways. Either you listen to the independent pay review body 01 to the independent pay review body or you do not. This is a halfway house. It is frustrating for us. A lot of my members are going to be. In fact, all of them will be angry and dismayed, because the government will say what a magnificent job and dismayed, because the government will say what a magnificentjob we do and over the last 12 months, but on the other hand there is this derisory pay rise. You mentioned the tuc and we heard speakers they are talking about division among Public Sector workers. There is a case there that ican workers. There is a case there that i can put to you, if they Public Sector worker was not part of this deal, and not a prison or Police Officer, and said, at least youre getting some kind of deal, what would you say to them . I would have some sympathy. What we have seen over the past five years particularly in policing, because of the cuts we have been picking up the pieces of cuts and other Public Sector services. Not the fault of the workers but the fault of the policy. We have been picking up the pieces among social services, the health service, the education service. They have been struggling. 0ne ironic thing we might be facing in the next few months, if there are going to be demonstrations by unions in relation to the Public Sector pay cap, who will be policing does demonstrations . The Police Officers of england and wales up and down the country who frankly have enough to do. It is ironic that we will end up policing those demonstrations when we dont have the right to be able to ta ke we dont have the right to be able to take industrial action. We need to take industrial action. We need to use the power and the force of persuasion in order to convince the government of needs. We convinced the independent pay review body but the independent pay review body but the government did not wholly listen to what they said. You underlined again the extent to which Police Officers can take action. I am wondering what are the options open to you if you dont feel your cases being in government . This is exactly it. All we can do is make our voice heard, but the time is rapidly approaching where the patience of our members is at breaking point. For the past five yea rs breaking point. For the past five years we breaking point. For the past five yea rs we have breaking point. For the past five years we have been dealing with austerity and pay freezes, pay caps, and increased demand and decreased resilience. We have been dealing with increased terror threat. It has got to the end of the line. Police officers do notjoin the Police Service to make huge amounts of money. They simply do not. But they wa nt to money. They simply do not. But they want to be able to do theirjob and be paid fairly and have a pay mechanism that listens to their concerns and takes notice of the evidence and the government that listens to the independent pay review body. To be honest, i am at my wits end as to where we go next in terms of beginning and continuing to push the argument of further reforms that are needed around pay. A final thing, while you were speaking there i have got a statement in from the police minister. I will scan it quickly. He says, the Police Officers have a step in the right direction with the offer. We will not please everyone. He says the offer was affordable to force is an added we should recognise the Police System is sitting on land leased £1. 5 billion tax payers money in reserve. He says a 1 bonus element was structured in a way that balances burners with affordability. We will not please everyone. Then he crucially, asked about the 2018 19 pay deal, he said, what the police can expect is we will work very closely over the next months to get a good understanding of the demands in the system, how they are managing that, how they will manage that £1. 5 billion worth of reserves they are sitting on. Are you comfortable with the fact he is focusing in that area . In terms of where the money comes from, that is an issue for government and police and crime commissioner is. The issue for us is that actually the pay award announced today is going to cost something in the region of £50 million. It is almost nothing. The overall pay bill for police is 6. 9 billion. When you compare it to other spending departments it is very small. You must get the safety and security of the country right in orderfor and security of the country right in order for Everything Else to fall into place. I am not convinced that by publicly having a debate around forces having money in reserve and this kind of stuff is particularly helpful. What we must have is a properly resourced and funded Police Service with well motivated, experienced officers, who feel that the government respects what they do, that the service respects what they do and they are fairly remunerated for it and we are not there. Good of you to come in. Thank you. Steve white with his response. We stay with this theme. The news about Public Sector pay came as the latest inflation figures were published. It rose by more than expected last month to its joint highest level in more than five years. The office for National Statistics says inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices index, rose to 2. 9 in august, up from 2. 6 injuly. 0ur economics correspondent andy verity reports. With every month, the average wage buys less of this. For most of the last ten years, food prices kept on dropping, as did the price of many imported goods. But then the pound dropped in value. Firms like this cake shop now have to spend more pounds to get the dollars or euros they need to get the supplies from abroad. And now those cost rises are feeding through. Big increase in the price of butter, which has gone up 100 over the last 12 months and a big increase in the price of sugar which has gone up by a0 . For us, it will definitely not mean changing the ingredients or downsizing the size of portions and things like that so we have put our prices up by about 10 over the last year, which has helped. Weve obviously looked at our suppliers and done a lot of work to reduce the costs theyre passing on to us. Companies with rising costs face a dilemma, especially in a Competitive Industry like food. Raise prices too much and customers might go elsewhere. Raise them too little, and those higher costs will start eating into whatever profit you hope to make. At 2. 9 , inflation returned to a four year high which was first hit last may. Among the pressures on the cost of living was petrol, up 5. 1 , and clothing, which also rose by 5. 1 . In the city, traders had not expected the cost of living to rise quite this fast. Now, the prediction is that Interest Rates might arise from their record low as soon as february. That pushed up the value of the pound this morning, as set against the dollar. But some economists still think there is no need to raise rates any time soon. The bank of england has a difficult decision to make on this, because inflation is rising well above wage growth, and that means that Household Incomes are being squeezed. We think that they will probably keep Interest Rates unchanged for another couple of years. Whether for luxuries or essentials, prices on average continue to rise faster than the average wage. For now, though, most of the Interest Rate setters at the bank of england are sticking to their belief that this latest bout of inflation and the squeeze on Living Standards are temporarily. This is bbc news at 5. 15. The headlines the cap on Public Sector pay rises is to be lifted, but only for police and prison officers in england and wales. The announcement comes as the latest inflation figures rise to the highest level in more than five years. Foreign secretary borisjohnson flies to the caribbean amid criticism of britains response to rai al youm. In sports the england womens manager mark samson tells the bbc he is not a racist. It follows claims are bullying and determination made against them by the straker. He lost an appeal against the length of his ban and was sent off against Manchester City at the weekend. The Champions League group stage starts tonight with manchester united, chelsea and celtic in action. The latter attempting to contain paris saintjermaines forward line. 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