article_snippet: The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority [IPSA], which overseas MPs’ expenses, began deducting cash from his salary in February, but his only has another two months’ pay before the election in a bid to recoup £13,000 in debts he owes the taxpayer.
article_snippet: IPSA informed the MP last month that IPSA would not pay a host of travel and other expenses.
article_snippet: a claim which IPSA denies.
article_snippet: In a blog post posted on his website last month his attacked IPSA for making IPSA look like his ‘had knowingly left a debt unpaid for over a year’.
article_snippet: Sir Ian Kennedy said: ‘IPSA accepts that the claims were agreed in advance, then confirmed as OK, then checked and paid by IPSA.
article_snippet: my responsibility should therefore repay all of the cash paid out by IPSA last year.
article_snippet: Sir Ian Kennedy added: ‘I have at no point in my parliamentary career failed to promptly pay anything to IPSA which may have been owed by my office, nor have I made any public complaint about IPSA.
article_snippet: ‘I will not repay IPSA in cash unless the situation is resolved in IPSA’s favour.
highlights_snippet: Commons expenses watchdog IPSA docking his wages by around £1,000 .
  
highlights_snippet: the MP is fighting the claim, insisting that IPSA signed off the MP expense claims .
  