The meeting  for Members’ Staff in the Attlee Suite yesterday (Monday 8 February) was chaired by Sir Ian Kennedy who was accompanied by fellow IPSA Board members Rt Hon Lord Justice Scott Baker and Ken Olisa.

It was a very well attended and lively meeting with several staff expressing anger at proposals contained in the IPSA consultation paper.  Of those present, only a handful were from constituency offices.

Topics which received attention included, amongst others, the following:

• The position of spouses of Members
• Freedom for staff to be involved in party political activities
• Internships and national minimum wage and a request that interns, as a group, be consulted
• Recruitment and induction for Staff
• Pay and pension arrangements for staff and the lack of training for MPs as employers
• Redundancy arrangements
• Variations in the volume of casework between different constituencies

W4MP has requested a full report on the meeting from IPSA and as soon as we receive it, it will appear on this website.

Please do not wait for this to arrive.  The deadline for responses to the consultation is
this Thursday 11 February so, if you haven’t already done so,
please go to the IPSA website today and respond. 
W4MP encourages constituency-based staff, in particular, to respond.

Click here to go to the W4MP main page on IPSA