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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/new-expenses-regime-impeding-mps.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The new parliamentary expenses regime is 'impeding' MPs and must be reformed, Sir George Young said" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-new-expenses-regime-impeding-mps.jpg" alt="The new parliamentary expenses regime is 'impeding' MPs and must be reformed, Sir George Young said"/></a></p>
<p>The new parliamentary expenses regime is &#8220;impeding&#8221; MPs in doing their jobs and must be reformed within the next two months, the Leader of the House of Commons has said.</p>
<p>In a highly critical statement, Sir George Young said the system set up by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) was &#8220;failing in many respects&#8221; to support the Commons.</p>
<p>Certain &#8220;highly unsatisfactory&#8221; aspects of the reformed expenses are &#8220;at best distracting, and at worst impeding&#8221; the work of MPs.</p>
<p>The new system is deterring people from less affluent backgrounds from becoming MPs and putting &#8220;undue pressure&#8221; on the family lives of existing parliamentarians, he said.</p>
<p>In a submission to the annual review of the new scheme, Sir George called for improvements to be agreed, if not introduced, by April 1.</p>
<p>His intervention came as Ipsa published the latest tranche of MPs&#8217; claims. MPs had 154 claims for expenses rejected by the body between September 15 and the end of October. They were collectively worth £15,352.49.</p>
<p>Another £3,641,081.09 was paid out in legitimate claims to 622 MPs in September and October.</p>
<p>Ipsa has incurred the wrath of hundreds of MPs since being set up to administer their expenses in the aftermath of the 2009 scandal.</p>
<p>Sir George said: &#8220;I believe that the current expenses scheme, as designed, implemented and administered by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, is failing in many respects adequately to support MPs to undertake their responsibilities.</p>
<p>&#8220;In addition, some aspects of the new regime are in danger of deterring people from less affluent backgrounds from becoming &#8211; and in some cases remaining &#8211; Members of Parliament and are also placing undue pressure on some MPs&#8217; family lives.&#8221;</p>
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