Submitted on Friday 8th April 2016
Rejected on Monday 11th April 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Why do MPs deserve a pay rise when our Troops do not?
Government proposed pay freeze of 1% for the UK Armed Forces is an insult when compared with the self voted 11% pay rise of MP's.
As you, the Government, wish to freeze the pay of the Armed Forces, perhaps you should freeze MPs pay first, and that of the PM. Alternatively you could debate why MPs that do not place they're lives in danger deserve a pay rise when our Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen do not.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
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
We already have a petition about pay rises for the armed forces, which you ight like to sign:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/111935
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