Sentences with phrase «of ipsa»

«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.

With no formal strategy in place for English schools, Stuart Naisbett of IPSA discusses the difficulties security poses and how best to initiate security policy.

Should Labour retain power, Harriet Harman has confirmed that legislation or standing orders will be put down as necessary depending on the outcome of the Ipsa consultation.

Other members of the Ipsa board will be appointed shortly.

But before she did, John Bercow announced the appointment of Sir Ian Kennedy as head of Ipsa.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.»

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

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 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.

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».

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 chance of any political party objecting to Ipsa's decisions is virtually nil.

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

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 is an all - consuming way of life that is way beyond the concept of life as a modern professional...» Looks like it's back to school for IPSA.

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.

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».

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

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.

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.

Stretching back to the Neil Hamilton cash for questions saga, the committee on standards in public life was established in 1994 and then in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was painfully born.

Parliament thought it had finally got shot of the whole issue, farming the messy business of expenses out to IPSA, and to a compliance officer who has powers to order repayment and to impose fines.

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.

Ipsa was established after the expenses scandal in 2009 when MPs handed the running of expenses to an independent body.

«Ipsa should be standing their ground, not caving in to MPs like this,» Fiona McEvoy of the Taxpayers» Alliance told the Daily Mail newspaper.

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

IPSA, set up in the wake of the expenses scandal, has faced a backlash from some MPs claiming the new rules are overly complicated and draconian.

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.

There was a sudden eruption of outrage at a meeting of the Conservative 1922 committee this afternoon over the new MPs body, Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA).