David Cameron has said he will stop using taxpayer money to fund trade union staff
The Government will stop taxpayer money being used to fund trade union staff, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
In the last financial year, taxpayers funded the trade unions to the tune of £113 million through paid staff time, Mr Cameron was told during Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons.
He said it was now time to end the funding, adding that the strike made the argument for reform "even stronger".
Mr Cameron said: "I think the idea of full-time trade unionists working in the public sector on trade union business, rather than serving the public, I don't think that is right and we are going to put that to an end.
"I think that is absolutely the case and the evidence today makes that even stronger."
