Submitted on Friday 6th May 2016
Rejected on Monday 9th May 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
MP's to be paid the national average salary, rather than the ~£74,000 currently.
MP's today are often accused of being out of touch with the general public across all parties. The proposed policy will not only allow MP's to understand the realities of the majority of the public, but will help inform policy decisions and create a fairer society.
We need a society that feels it is understood by the people who are trusted to run the country.
Whilst 7 percent of the uk public attend private school and 1 percent attend 'oxbridge', a third of MP's attended private school and 25 percent attended oxbridge. Whilst you should never judge anyone by their uprbringing and parental decisions, this policy will help readress the imbalance, elitism and career politics which has dominated recent years.
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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
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