Rejected petition Link MPs Pay & Pension to those of most Junior Government employees

The creation of a legally binding link that ties the annual pay and pension increases of all members of Parliament to the annual pay and pension increases given to most junior levels of these professions: Doctors, Nurses, Servicemen, the Civil Service and Emergency workers.

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A method to bind together the leaders of our society and the lowest paid, to ensure that there is balance in government pay

If Parliament award themselves 10% the lowest paid get 10%, if the lowest paid gets 1% Parliament gets 1%

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 and pensions. 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.

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

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

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Date submitted 14 March 2016
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