MPs will see their pay rise again this year - just months after their controversial 10 per cent salary hike came into force.

Worcestershire's MPs are among those due to benefit from a 1.3 per cent rise in April, adding nearly £1,000 on top of their existing £74,000.

The £962 boost, which will cost taxpayers more than half a million pounds, comes despite Chancellor George Osborne imposing a yearly one per cent 'cap' on all other public sector workers until 2020.

MPs saw their pay increase from £67,000 to £74,000 last summer but the Independent Parliament Standards Authority (IPSA) is preparing to confirm another rise in the coming weeks.

Under the deal which was agreed last year, MPs' pay is updated in line with public sector weekly earnings figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The reason why the ONS figure is 1.3 per cent is because the data includes workers who have secured promotions.

Last summer's changes, which followed the expenses scandal, included large curbs to pensions and reductions in other expense claims in return for the pay rise.

With the cuts to pensions and other changes, despite the salary going up 10 per cent the changes from IPSA did not cost the taxpayer anything extra, as it was cost neutral overall.

Amid criticism about the latest proposals from the likes of Unison yesterday, Worcestershire's MPs have insisted IPSA must be allowed to do its job without interference.

Worcester MP Robin Walker said today: "The most important point here is that it should be for IPSA to decide rather than MPs - if anybody wants to query it with them, fine.

"It sounds like a bit of a non-story if the difference is just 0.3 per cent, that's substantially less than what many MPs give to charity anyway.

"It’s up for IPSA to answer and I’m perfectly happy if people want to take it up with them.

"The whole point of setting this system up was to take it out of MPs hands and to go back on that would be a mistake."

He also pointed to MPs pensions' worsening significantly under the IPSA shake-up.

Mid-Worcestershire MP Nigel Huddleston, who was elected for the first time at last year's General Election, said: "As one of the new MPs, I've said all along that it should not be for us to decide this.

"It's entirely up to IPSA, they could put it up, put it down, but it must be their choice.

"But I would say having some kind of link to public sector earnings makes sense because that's what most people understand.

"I certainly didn't get into politics for the money."

Other Conservative MPs in the county said they would carry on giving some to charity.

West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin, who is also Economic Secretary to the Treasury said today: "MPs' pay is set by IPSA and I think it is right these decisions are taken independently.

"Ministers have agreed to freeze their pay for the duration of this parliament and like the Prime Minister, I'll continue to make charitable donations to support local good causes."

Labour MP and shadow minister Gloria de Piero today attacked the rise as unfair on other state workers, while Unison labelled it "gross hypocrisy".

But IPSA chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said: "In making the decision on MPs' pay we were very aware of the strongly held views of many members of the public and some MPs themselves.

"We listened to those views and made an important change to the way in which pay will be adjusted annually.

"Instead of linking MPs' pay to wages in the whole economy it is now linked to public sector pay.

"Over the last parliament, MPs' pay increased by two per cent compared to five per cent in the public sector and 10 per cent in the whole economy."