Rejected petition That MPs salary should be a fixed at three times national average salary.

Rejected on 15 July 2016

MPs salary is a point of contention between parliament and the people they represent. The lack of transparency of how the figures are arrived at, the injustice between MPs pay increases while public sector workers receive smaller increases causes fractures in the trust between Parliament and people.

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 and expenses. 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 and expenses.

If you would like to contact IPSA, here’s how to contact them:

http://parliamentarystandards.org.uk/About%20Us/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.