Submitted on Tuesday 21st July 2015
Rejected on Thursday 23rd July 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
MP's to forfeit their 11% pay rises to prove "we are all in it together"
MPs to forfeit an 11% pay rise as we live in a time of austerity and they already have expenses and second home allowances. Instead MPs should have a 1% pay rise over the next five years in line with the public sector. If it is reasonable for the NHS and Civil Sevice it should be the same for them.
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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.
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