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Living Wage for Politicians.

Submitted on Thursday 3rd March 2016

Rejected on Friday 4th March 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

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Living Wage for Politicians.

Petition Details

MPs and MSPs should be paid the Living Wage for their first three months of term to fully understand the communities they represent and will not be able to empathise with people on the living wage until they have experienced it for themselves.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

The Government and Parliament don’t have the power to set MPs’ pay. That power was given by Parliament to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) in 2010, so that after 2012 MPs no longer had control over their own pay. IPSA conducted a public consultation after 2012 and decided what the salaries of MPs should be after the election.

If you would like to contact IPSA about its decision, here’s how to contact them:

http://parliamentarystandards.org.uk/About%20Us/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx

The only way that the decision of IPSA could be challenged would be if the law was changed to return the power to set MPs’ pay to the MPs themselves, or to give the power to some other body. The law could only be changed by Parliament.

Please note that neither the UK Parliament or Government have responsibility for setting the pay for Members of the Scottish Parliament.

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