Committee on Standards in Public Life: MPs' Expenses and Allowances: Supporting Parliament, safegu…
R12-43
Published November 2009
Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
The independent determination of MPs’ pay and pensions should be entrenched in primary legislation in the same way as expenses. The independent regulator should therefore be given statutory responsibility for setting MPs’ pay levels and overseeing MPs’ pensions as well as for dealing with expenses.
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, MPs' Expenses and Allowances: Supporting Parliament, safeguarding the taxpayer, November 2009