Sentences with phrase «by ipsa»

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.

«I think that the contract of employment is a standard one which is supplied by Ipsa (the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority), but essentially by the House.

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.

New MPs will not be allowed to hire members of their family after the next election, under new guidelines announced today by Ipsa.

The practice was permitted to continue by Ipsa but 155 out of the Commons» 650 MPs now employ a family member, up from 145 last year.

Following the UK expenses scandal in 2009, a new claims system was introduced by IPSA, which is responsible for setting the yearly allowances as well as individual budget increases.

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.

Not exact matches

Figures released by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) watchdog yesterday revealed the Commons» 650 MPs spent a combined total of # 89.4 million, up 26 % on the # 71 million in 2010/11.

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.

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.

The total bill for MPs» expenses rose from # 98 million to # 103 million last year, according to figures released by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa.)

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

Subsequently a new independent body the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was created by Parliament to oversee and regulate MPs» business costs and expenses.

Senior MPs slammed the extravagant spending, forced out of IPSA by The Sun with Freedom of Information requests

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.»

Actually, all that statutory underpinning means is that the independent regulatory body would be established by legislation, in a manner similar to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) that now administers MPs» expenses, after they blotted their copybook on this score a couple of years ago.

The consensus that emerged around the Kelly review has been somewhat overwhelmed by the creation of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa).

I was not convinced that a member of the public had taken the time to search the Ipsa website for my expenses and then authored an inaccurate attack which matched the attack by the newspaper journalist.

It will come as no surprise to colleagues that one of my first dalliances with the PCC came after the first batch of expenses were published by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa).

Sir Ian Kennedy, chairman of that body of responsibility and accountability dreaded and derided by MPs, IPSA, has received a strongly - worded letter from a mysterious «senior parliamentarian».

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.

Ipsa's operations director quit in June after being overwhelmed by the stress of the job.

Mr Bercow's official spending is not subject to the same rules as other MPs - who are banned by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) from claiming meals or alcohol on expenses

One of the most significant features of this parliament has been the rise of a much more independent parliamentary party... The small number of frontbench jobs relative to the size of the 2010 intake... The difference between the Coalition Agreement and the manifesto promises that MPs were elected upon... The empowerment of backbenchers by Speaker Bercow... The IPSA factor... No10's party mismanagement... at least ten factors have created what I've called the supercharged backbencher.

«Sir Ian Kennedy, chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), was told by Leader of the House Andrew Lansley it was the Prime Minister's view that he should row back on his plans.

This post is found on Res Ipsa Loquitur («The Thing Itself Speaks») by Jonathan Turley.