Submitted on Friday 8th April 2016
Rejected on Monday 11th April 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Make members of Parliament pay rises the same system as civil servants.
If the CPI (Consumer Price Index) shows an increase in prices from one September to the next, Civil Servants Pensions payments are usually increased the following April to reflect this. If the CPI shows that prices have fallen or remain the same level then no increase will usually be applied.
So no increase this year but MPs with the assistance of the IPSA (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority) will increase by 1.3% in line with the rate of annual change in average earnings. So an increase of 1.3% on the basic salary of £74962 is £974.50 per year.
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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.
If you would like to contact IPSA, here’s how to contact them:
http://parliamentarystandards.org.uk/About%20Us/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx
If you would like Parliament to change the law, to take back the power to set MPs' salaries from IPSA, and to link them to CPI isntead, you could start a new petition asking for that.
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