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Proceeding contribution from Lord Harper (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 2 December 2010. It occurred during Backbench debate on Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

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I am grateful for that intervention. I shall now try to make some progress, as I want to leave sufficient time for other hon. Members who wish to get in. I said that the Prime Minister would be listening closely to this debate. In July, during Prime Minister's questions, he said:"““what is necessary is a properly transparent system, a system with proper rules and limits which the public would have confidence in, but what we do not need is an overly bureaucratic and very costly system. I think all those in the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority need to get a grip of what they are doing, and get a grip of it very fast.””—[Official Report, 14 July 2010; Vol. 513, c. 946.]" That is what all Members have said today. They want IPSA's system to be transparent, straightforward, not bureaucratic and not costly. IPSA should get on with that.

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Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
519 c1064-5 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Administration Costs Allowances Bureaucracy Families Payments Members Location Members' constituency work Members' staff Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
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