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
The bill would require IPSA to reduce the cost of MPs’ pay by changing how MPs are paid, moving from salaries and some allowances to a new Members’ Allowance. It keeps funding for staffing and constituency office rental from existing arrangements, and sets how the allowance is calculated and capped, with IPSA’s admin costs limited to 2.5% of the payment value.
The bill is currently at the 2nd Reading in the House of Commons.
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