This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Abolish all expenses, benefits for MP's and bring their wages down to NMW.
Given how out of touch our MP's have become with the living standards in the UK it is only right that the should be equal to an average working person.
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Therefore this petition is a call for all the wages for politician to be lowered to be in-line with the national minimum wage limit. Further for all the benefits and expenses schemes to be scraped.
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.
IPSA is also repsonsible for the rules about MPs' business costs and expenses.
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http://parliamentarystandards.org.uk/About%20Us/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx
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