Submitted on Tuesday 21st July 2015
Rejected on Wednesday 22nd July 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
To reject the proposed wage increase for MPs
MPs are soon to receive a substantial pay rise despite a variety of cuts to spending and welfare. This is unjustifiable and hypocritical, especially in this so-called period of austerity, and also unfair to the vast number of people in the public sector who are grossly underpaid.
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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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