Submitted on Sunday 14th February 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 17th February 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Politicians wages should only increase in line with nhs wage increases.
The average nhs employee receives a 1% wage increase while politicians give themselves a 10% wage increase. I find this completely unfair. Let's get the government to reap what they sow.
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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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