"I supported the creation of an independent regulator to determine and pay MPs’ expenses.
I am grateful that IPSA have said the new scheme will be up and running by the beginning of the new Parliament. I welcome that the overall costs of this new package, and IPSA’s running costs, will be lower than at present, which my party has long argued for.
I believe that IPSA’s proposals should be accepted as one of the steps we need to take to clean up Parliament.”
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