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.
Judging from the complaining that still emanates from the body politic
about IPSA and its practices, the notion that statutory underpinning in its case at least did not equal «entirely controlled by politicians.»
Not exact matches
I had a call from
IPSA asking me to call them urgently
about a claim my MP had submitted via their oh - so - simple online system.
This case came
about before
IPSA was created.
If the PM needed a little reminder of the public's scepticism
about Westminster politics, he needed to look no further than the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (
Ipsa), which was going out of its way to give politicians a bad name.
Meanwhile former shadow Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty MP pledged to raise the matter with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (
IPSA), and the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, stating: «These further revelations
about the shadowy ERG and their influence over the government in pushing an ultra hard Brexit agenda, in conflict with official government policy, are deeply concerning.
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.
Since the complaints
about her expenses related to 2010 before
IPSA was established, the complaints were given to the standards committee, a body of MPs whose primary task now is to police and judge the conduct of MPs over issues such as lobbying, and the register of MPs interests.
It's also
about other issues - general backbench dissatisfaction with the establishment - see yesterday's 1922 committee revolt over
IPSA - and also
about the new generation of MPs more aggressively asserting their rights over the executive.
First, there's the free YouMail app, which I first learned
about courtesy of Ross Kodner, legal technology consultant extraordinaire, at his blog Ross
Ipsa Loquitur.