All MPs and total amounts claimed in expenses by year starting since 2010

Request

Can you please provide me with a list of all mps and total amounts claimed in expenses year by year starting 7th may 2010 and running till 7th may 2014


Response

IPSA holds the information that you request.

You may be aware that IPSA publishes all claims for business costs and expenses on our website every two months, three months in arrears. You can view the published information via this link to our publication website. However, we do not require Members to specify which office the cost was incurred at, and we are not therefore able to separately identify all costs incurred at the constituency office from those incurred at the parliamentary office.    

The FOIA states that information that is accessible by other means is not subject to release. Therefore, as the information you have requested is already available on our website, it is exempt from disclosure under section 21 of the FOIA (information accessible to applicant by other means).

For your reference, the next publication date is 8 May 2014, which will cover those claims processed by IPSA during December 2013 to January 2014. Claims subsequently processed by IPSA will follow in future publications.

Some of the information you have requested is intended for publication at a future date. Section 22(1) of the FOIA states that information intended for future publication is exempt from release.

We have considered whether the public interest in releasing the information outweighs the application of the exemption. It is our opinion that the public interest is best served by publishing a full list rather than on an ad hoc basis, as in this way a clear and complete set of information is published, avoiding any potential confusion. It is for this reason that the application of the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosure at this stage.

Ref:
F1415-004
Disclosure:
16 April 2014
Categories:
GENERAL EXPENSES ENQUIRY
Exemptions Applied:
Section 21