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Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

I can do no more than say that I have been working on this, along with other people. An implementation team in the Ministry of Justice was working on setting up IPSA over the summer, and meetings and discussions have also been held with the trade unions. We had a lengthy meeting in which we discussed and noted all the concerns, but the difficulty that I have in dealing with them is that, until the board of the new authority is established, there is little that can be said about what it will do . It would not be right to hamper the setting up of the new authority or to constrain what it can do, but it will clearly move forward.