Submitted on Saturday 13th February 2016
Rejected on Monday 15th February 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
MPs should not be allowed a 1.3% pay rise this year after a back dated 10% rise.
MPs are set to receive a 1.3 % pay rise of £962 after voting for public sector pay rises to be capped to 1% until 2019 and forcing junior doctors to accept salaries of £23 000.
This increase will take effect in April - nine months after they received a backdated 10 % rise from £67,060 to £74,000.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-get-pay-rise-of-nearly-1000-despite-one-per-cent-public-sector-wage-caps-a6865286.html
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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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