Number of staff employed by IPSA and how many people have left per month.

Request

The number of staff employed by IPSA to administer the MPs expenses scheme’ and ‘how many members of staff have left IPSA’s employment, broken down by month, since its creation?


Response

I can confirm that IPSA holds the information that falls within the description specified in your request.

IPSA currently employs a total of 53.4 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff members including the staff employed within IPSA’s Compliance Office.

Please see Annex A for a table listing the number of IPSA staff that have left IPSA’s employment since we became fully operational in May 2010.

At its inception, IPSA was a slightly larger organisation. Over time we anticipated that the organisation would shrink as systems and processes became embedded and operations more efficient. It was for this reason that we employed a number of fixed term contractors, the figures for which are listed separately in the table.

Annex A - The number of IPSA staff that have left IPSA’s employment since we became fully operational in May 2010 – Correct on 30 January 2012.

The number of IPSA staff that have left IPSA since May 2010

MonthFixed Term staffPermanent Staff
May 201000
June 201000
July 201001
August 201000
September 201000
October 201000
November 201000
December 201001
January 201110
February 201110
March 201110
April 201110
May 201100
June 201110
July 201111
August 201102
September 201102
October 201110
November 201100
December 201110
January 201201
Total88

Please note that these figures do not include members of staff that are on a secondment from other departments.

These figures include all retirements, resignations and fixed term contracts that have ended.

Ref:
FOI2012-A001
Disclosure:
31 January 2012
Categories:
IPSA - STAFF
Exemptions Applied:
None