This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition MP's to forfeit their 11% pay rises to prove "we are all in it together"
MPs to forfeit an 11% pay rise as we live in a time of austerity and they already have expenses and second home allowances. Instead MPs should have a 1% pay rise over the next five years in line with the public sector. If it is reasonable for the NHS and Civil Sevice it should be the same for them.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
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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