Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme: Governance
Changes to the governance arrangements of the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme have been proposed. They are to be debated on 16 June 2025.

Appointments to the Board of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority are made by His Majesty following an humble Address, from the House of Commons.
Appointment of the IPSA Board (176 KB , PDF)
Members of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) are appointed in accordance with the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009. It provides for IPSA to have a chair and four other members (including a former MP, an auditor and a former holder of high judicial office). All are appointed by His Majesty on an address of the House of Commons. They are selected by the Speaker of the House of Commons, with the agreement of the Speaker’s Committee on the IPSA, following a fair and open competition.
On 17 July 2023, the House of Commons agreed that Dame Laura Cox should be appointed to IPSA, from 1 August 2023, until 31 July 2028.
On 20 June 2023, the Speaker’s Committee on IPSA issued a report recommending that Dame Laura Cox be appointed to the IPSA Board for five years.
The terms and qualifications of the members of the IPSA Board are:
Appointment of the IPSA Board (176 KB , PDF)
Changes to the governance arrangements of the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme have been proposed. They are to be debated on 16 June 2025.
Statements made by the Speaker deprecating the making of key policy announcements before they are made in the House of Commons.
Movers and seconders of the motion of the Debate on the Address since 1900.