Sentences with phrase «ipsa say»

Officials for Ipsa say the incidents relate back to the early days of the new regime and that it now functions effectively.

The posh and quite forthright lady from IPSA said I had attempted to submit a two - page invoice but had forgotten to enclose the second page.

Not exact matches

«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.

On the rare occasion that I reach my underground station and realise I've left my Oyster card at home, I get a Travelcard and claim it back through IPSA, justifying it by saying that I'd had to travel from Westminster to the constituency that day.

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.

Karl McCartney, 42, MP for Lincoln, said the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) was «incompetent» and accused it of trying to bully him into silence.

Ipsa's chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said that regulation had reduced the cost to the taxpayer of expenses by # 58 million.

Responding to the Standards Committee report regarding Maria Miller, an Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) spokesman said:

Matthew Sinclair, chief executive of the TaxPayers» Alliance, said: «While there have been many sensible changes to the expenses regime since the 2009 scandal, this kind of year - on - year rise is totally unsustainable and Ipsa has to explain to those of us footing the bill how that has been allowed to happen.»

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.

Ipsa blamed the increase on higher staffing costs and said it had helped save the taxpayer # 35 million since its establishment.

«Anything would be unthinkable unless the cost of politics was frozen and cut, so I'll wait and see what Ipsa have to say.

In a letter to Kelly, he said that the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) would begin work on the committee's recommendations immediately.

And the Ipsa chairman has said the new system should be ready to be put in place «early next spring», ie in time for the new parliament.

Johnson said: «It is perfectly true that I had thought «res ipsa loquitur» [the matter speaks for itself], just get on and do the job, but I was conscious that people wanted me to contribute to the public debate.

Writing on her blog, she said: «I can't talk about the Ipsa investigation until it reports other than to say that so far I am happy with the way the investigation has been conducted and I am looking forward to the report.

In a sign that the government acknowledges the damage from another row over expenses, Duncan Smith said he was open to a proposal by Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), to end the right of MPs to sit in judgment on their peers.

Kennedy, the Ipsa head, said Miller's conduct showed the need to end the right of MPs to regulate their own affairs.

He criticised the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) which is expected to say backbench MPs» # 66,000 salaries should increase to around # 75,000 after the 2015 election.

Ms Soubry said the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) should investigate the ERG payments to ensure taxpayers money «was being spent responsibly.»

The former shadow home secretary said it showed that IPSA was «out of touch with reality» and he would propose a motion to stop the increase as the «public would not see the point of this», but he would not be drawn on whether he would accept the rise.

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

Writing on his website, Newport West MP Mr Flynn said: «A monthly 30 minute chore was complicated by IPSA into hours of tedious frustrating trawling through a bureaucratic morass of rules that are complex and tedious.

As they would say over in Legal, «res ipsa loquitur».

«Lawyers, they're the biggest problem with money laundering in this country, as far as I'm concerned,» says Marsh, now president of IPSA International.

The old saying that hard cases make bad law is one is not always true is a recent case in the Privy Council demonstrates in a laudable effort to do justice to a litigant in person the Privy Council (Lords Mance and Neuberger and Sir Jonathan Parker) appear to have extended the application of res ipsa loquitor.

And the odd «balductum,» hailing from 1593, is Latin for pressed milk: res, as they say, ipsa loquitur.