A Bill to amend the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 to require the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority to reduce the cost and change the schemes of payment of Members of the House of Commons; and for connected purposes.
The Bill would amend the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 to require the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority to reduce the cost and change the schemes of payment of Members of the House of Commons.Key areasrequires IPSA to prepare a scheme to replace the salaries and certain allowances currently payable to Members with a Members’ Allowance; the Staffing Expenditure and Constituency Office Rental Expenditure would be retained from the current schemespecifies how the Members’ Allowance is to be calculated and that its budget should be lower than the total expenditure of the current arrangementsrestricts IPSA’s administrative costs to 2.5 per cent of the value of payments under the Scheme.
House of Commons
1 May 2012
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The bill would require IPSA to design a new pay scheme that replaces MPs' salaries and certain allowances with a single Members’ Allowance. It would keep Staffing Expenditure and Constituency Office Rental Expenditure, set how the allowance is calculated, and require the overall budget to be lower than current spending, with IPSA’s administrative costs capped at 2.5%.
The bill is currently at the second reading stage in the House of Commons.
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