This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Stop MPs getting a rise and 10% pension increase ontop of their £50,000 bonus
Why should MPs be rewarded when the nation is at its lowest? They havnt done anything to deserve it!
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MPs will receive a “bonus” worth as much as £50,000 on top of their controversial 10 per cent pay rise.
As a result of the increase in MPs’ pay, which is due to rise to £74,000. The House of Commons pension scheme is likely to cost the taxpayer millions more than expected.
The Prime Minister is now said to be planning to accept the increase in his salary to £150,000, after the Independent Parliament Standards Authority (Ipsa) ruled that the 10 per cent upgrade was "justified" .
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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