Cap MP pay rises to match pay rises given to other public sector workers.

MPs are set to receive a 1.3 per cent pay rise of £962 despite voting for public sector pay rises to be capped to one per cent until 2019.

This increase will take effect in April - nine months after they received a backdated 10 per cent pay rise from £67,060 to £74,000.

The Government and Parliament don’t have the power to set MPs’ pay. That power was given by Parliament to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) in 2010, so that after 2012 MPs no longer had control over their own pay. IPSA conducted a public consultation after 2012 and decided what the salaries of MPs should be after the election.

If you would like to contact IPSA about its decision, here’s how to contact them:

http://parliamentarystandards.org.uk/About%20Us/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx

The only way that the decision of IPSA could be challenged would be if the law was changed to return the power to set MPs’ pay to the MPs themselves, or to give the power to some other body. The law could only be changed by Parliament.