Submitted on Monday 23rd November 2015
Rejected on Thursday 26th November 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Discuss a review of all Government expenses and justify the MP's 10% pay rise.
MP's expenses claims are ridiculous in what they are allowed to claim. With tax benefits being cut from the poor, having to find spending cuts on NHS, Defence, Policing, Education.... the list goes on, why does the government think that the house of commons is exempt?
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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.
IPSA is also responsible for the rules for about MPs’ expenses and business costs.
If you would like to contact IPSA about its decisions, here’s how to contact them:
http://parliamentarystandards.org.uk/About%20Us/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx
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