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| Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority |
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| question text |
To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the
Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January
2021 to Question 133126, for what reasons IPSA has not included the geographical restrictions
of volunteer subsistence expenses within the wording of the (i) scheme as it relates
to volunteers and (ii) IPSA model volunteer contract; what steps IPSA has taken to
ensure that policy complies with section 5(1) of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009;
where previously IPSA has published its policy of geographical restrictions of volunteer
subsistence costs; when and with whom IPSA consulted ahead of introducing that policy;
what steps IPSA took to communicate that policy; on what dates that communication
occurred; and whether IPSA has undertaken an assessment of the appropriateness of
that policy position during the covid-19 outbreak.
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