This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Cap MP pay rises to match pay rises given to other public sector workers.
MPs are set to receive a 1.3 per cent pay rise of £962 despite voting for public sector pay rises to be capped to one per cent until 2019.
This increase will take effect in April - nine months after they received a backdated 10 per cent pay rise from £67,060 to £74,000.
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The Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities told the Sun: "I’m concerned that yet again this looks like our pay is going up quicker than other public sector workers like police, nurses and teachers.
"If their pay is capped at 1 per cent, why shouldn’t ours be."
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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