Summary Salaries and allowances for MPs
33.The IPSA is to take over paying the salaries of MPs in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the House of Commons.
34.The IPSA will also be responsible for drawing up the MPs’ allowances scheme. In doing so, it is expected that the IPSA will draw on the outcome of the current work of the CSPL in reviewing MPs’ allowances. The Act lays out certain matters which the IPSA may include in the scheme, such as specifying the types of expenditure or the limits on the amounts to be paid. The IPSA will also take over responsibility for authorising and making payments under the allowances scheme (these administrative functions are to be exercised on the IPSA’s behalf by its chief executive).