Sentences with phrase «eaque ipsa»

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People have been dropped in it and IPSA is not helping them.

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

Personal problems I was sitting at my computer with my MP, going through the weekly batch of invoices (of which there are lots) and looking at whether IPSA had bothered to repay my MP (no, they hadn't).

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.

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.

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.

It frustrates me when IPSA is demonised — if MPs forget why it's there, that's quite dangerous.

And as per usual, the monthly update from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA)...

«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.

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.

Mullin was the first MP to have an exit interview with IPSA, who he describes as «completely and utterly incompetent».

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.

IPSA: Initially, IPSA got some things wrong.

Had she had a morning on the phone to IPSA trying to make sense of the new online system?

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.

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.

Every autumn, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority [1](IPSA) publishes a detailed breakdown of the House of Commons MPs» expenses for the year, and news outlets rush to publish their analyses of this data.

[1] IPSA was created in 2009 in the wake of the expenses scandal to provide independent regulations and ensure greater transparency.

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.

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.)

Together they gave IPSA three main responsibilities:

IPSA is independent of Parliament and the Government.

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

Panic bells were clamouring in Downing Street tonight and Conservative Campaign Headquarters was thrown into turmoil at claims that glamour - denuded, «post-political» and IPSA - impoverished backbencher J.Alfred Prufrock is poised to issue a historic challenge today to David Cameron for the Tory leadership.

The recent debate on IPSA in Parliament highlighted the gulf that remains between IPSA and MPs.

IPSA (cue pantomime hisses and real frustration from MPs) also breaks cover.

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

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«Ipsa has shown that independent regulation of parliamentary behaviour can work.

This case came about before IPSA was created.

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.»

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

He added: «Whatever Ipsa recommends we can't see the cost of politics or Westminster going up.

As is the case with many researchers in Parliament, I'm at war with IPSA.

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.

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.

The public, which, because of its good sense, wouldn't know an Ipsa if it smacked them in the face, will only take home the 11 % figure.

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.

Even if party leaders, who all oppose the move, tried to scrap Ipsa, it would involve a vote of parliament, which MPs would be unlikely to support given most believe they are underpaid.

MPs are set to earn a basic salary of around # 75,000 after the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) announced an increase in their earnings, together with reforms to the expenses and pension system.

It means the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) watchdog, set up in the aftermath of the original expenses scandal, faces criticism for failing to stop the overall cost to the taxpayer rising.

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

«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.»

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

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

«While it is quite right that MPs should be claiming within limits, IPSA seem to spending with no limits whatsoever.