Sentences with phrase «ipsa pay»

IPSA pay our wages but do not oversee our working life.

«Fundamentally we believe the current system whereby [expenses watchdog] Ipsa pays MPs» rent is deeply flawed, both because it is open to abuse and because it does not represent good value for the taxpayer,» Unlock Democracy's director Peter Facey said.

Not exact matches

It took IPSA three months to fi nally pay him the correct wage.

We were never in danger of getting hit by the new 50p top rate of income tax, and I don't remember MPs» staff getting their moats cleaned on expenses, yet IPSA has nonetheless inflicted an effective pay cut on people who were already on relatively low pay.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) intends to stick to its plan of increasing MPs» pay from # 66,396 to # 74,000, it was reported this weekend.

Downing Street said the prime minister would not have to decide on whether or not to accept the pay rise until a final proposal is put forward by Ipsa in mid-2015.

However, the deputy prime minister admitted he was powerless to stop Ipsa recommending a pay rise or preventing his MPs from accepting it.

Ipsa boss Ian Kennedy, who earns # 700 a day but only works an average of two days a week, said there was never a good time to raise MPs» pay.

«If this was to go ahead I wouldn't be accepting this pay rise but I don't think it is going to go ahead in the current circumstances, because I think that when Ipsa consult the public, the public will be pretty clear that while the difficulties we have in the economy persist we can't have MPs getting a 10 % pay rise.»

IPSA has two main roles: to regulate the expenses system and administer and pay MPs» expenses and their salaries.

This is a disgraceful misuse of public money and IPSA should be calling them in on it, the rules have to change to stop this happening in the future and these MPs should be paying the money back».

Annual reporting is a proposal made by IPSA in favour of MPs individually accounting for what they have achieved and worked on each year, as the general public doesn't «have a clue» what MPs do, and simultaneously there is just «manufactured froth» in the press about MPs» pay.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) confirmed today that MPs» pay will rise to # 74,000 as part of a package of changes to their remuneration.

Responsibility for setting MPs» pay was handed to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) in an effort to defuse controversy.

Ipsa report says # 925,000 was paid between 125 people before general election, but each had a job for a different MP within 10 weeks

Analysis from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) also showed that staff members related to MPs were paid on average # 5,600 more than unrelated staff members during the last parliament.