Request for information about expenses of Mark Logan MP

I can confirm that we hold information relevant to your request.

IPSA routinely publishes the details of MPs’ business costs on our website.

You can visit Mr Logan's page on our website and select “all claims data” to download it.

This information is therefore subject to a Refusal Notice under section 21 of the FOIA because it is reasonably accessible by other means.

The published information covers the period up to November 2020. The information for the remainder of the financial year (2020-21) is subject to a Refusal Notice under section 22(1) of the FOIA. This exemption applies because this information is intended for future publication as part of IPSA’s Publication Schedule.

You find a copy of the schedule, which explains the frequency of which we publish the details of business costs on our website.

MPs have a certain amount of time in which to submit their claims, and this period has been extended due to the current situation. Once claims have been submitted there is then a period of validation and reconciliation, before the information is ready for publication. In the light of the validation and reconciliation procedure and because IPSA already has a schedule of routinely publishing this information, I find that the public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public interest in disclosure at this time.

I turn now to your final question about the eight payments of £350 made in August 2020. We have checked our records and can see that the eight payments were made due to an error regarding the recipient of the rent repayments. The first payment was due to be sent to the agent, with all subsequent payments sent directly to the landlord. All payments were made to the agent, who returned the erroneous payments to IPSA, and the rent for March 2020 to December 2020 inclusive was paid to the landlord in the eight payments of £350 made in August 2020.