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Refuse the MP pay rises while austerity is being forced on the voters.

Submitted on Monday 20th July 2015

Rejected on Wednesday 22nd July 2015

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Refuse the MP pay rises while austerity is being forced on the voters.

Petition Details

With a huge increase being argued for by a review committee against the wishes of party leaders. I believe it's time to act to end the gross increase of MP salaries while everyone else in the UK sees salaries or hours hit and benefits slashed.


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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.

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