Information on business and staffing costs and staffing levels for Ian Levy, MP

Request

I would like to make an FOI request in regards to the information available about business and staffing costs as well as information on the staff numbers for Ian Levy MP over the last 2 full financial years (2020/2021 and 2021/2022)


Response

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

Information about business costs and staffing is published in the ’MPs’ Staffing and Business Costs’ section of our website. As this information is publicly available, under section 21 of the FOIA we are not obliged to provide you with a copy of the information requested.

The rules setting out what MPs may claim for are set out on MPs' staffing and business costs.

Use the A-Z list to search for information on specific MPs. You can find information for Mr Levy on his page.

On the MP’s page, if you scroll down to the end of the first section ‘Business Costs‘ you will find a link to download all claim data for the MP.

There are more details about staffing in the section ‘Other financial costs’ under ‘Other staff information’ where you will find a list of the job titles of staff working for the MP, whether they are on part-time or full-time contracts, and whether they have been employed for all or part of the year in question.

More general information, including salary bands and job descriptions for the various job roles for MPs’ staff, is published on our website at Pay, tax & benefits.

Details of all claims submitted by all MPs are downloadable as single annual spreadsheets year using the links to Annual budgets, costs and claims

Ref:
RFI-202209-07
Disclosure:
22 September 2022
Categories:
MPs' OFFICE COSTSMPs' STAFFING
Exemptions Applied:
Section 21