Submitted on Friday 26th February 2016
Rejected on Monday 29th February 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Cut the pay and the amount of MP's in the UK. There are far too many.
With all Public services being cut back and no or very little pay rises for the people that actually matter, MP's have just announced another payrise for themselves above what is offered to others. Therefore I say we axe their numbers and freeze there pay or reduce it.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept your petition in its current form as MPs pay is not the responsibility of the UK Government and Parliament. 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.
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.
You could start a new petition calling for the numbers of MPs to be reduced.
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