Sentences with phrase «on ipsa»

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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».

The report will now go to Ipsa for consideration without MPs themselves being able to vote on the matter.

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.

Ipsa is currently consulting on the proposed changes to the system, taking on board Sir Christopher's views but reserving the right to come to different solutions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It read: «IPSA continues to listen to feedback from MPs and the public on the rules.

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.

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

«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.

Ipsa is due to launch its tough new MPs» expenses regime on Monday, and in advance Brown told MPs they must sign up to Ipsa's regime.

Analysis from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) also showed that staff members related to MPs were paid on average # 5,600 more than unrelated staff members during the last parliament.

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.

«Broadband: Nicholas Weber» remains on view through Jan 11, 2013 at RES IPSA, 455 17th Street, Suite 301, Oakland, CA 94612.

Counsel for the appellant agreed that he could not rely on res ipsa loquitur on the facts of this case and he limited himself to the two submissions to which we have referred.

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

The board had a hard task as the defence tactic does seem to have been to sit back and make Mrs George prove negligence while attempting to frustrate this at every turn but the board seized on res ipsa rather than leaving Mrs George without a remedy.

The appeal succeeded on the basis of res ipsa.