IPSA publishes details of funding provided for MPs’ parliamentary duties in the 2024-25 financial year

Date published: 20 November 2025

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has published details of the funding provide to MPs to enable them to carry out their parliamentary duties in the 2024-25 financial year.

Key findings include:

  • 79% of funding in 2024-25 was used to fund staff who work in MPs’ offices

  • 9% of funding was used to keep MPs’ offices running

  • 6% of funding paid for MPs’ business accommodation, enabling them to work in both London and their constituency

  • 4% of funding was used to support MP travel between their constituency and Westminster

You can find more information here and in our Supporting Democracy booklet, and see detailed MP spending data here.

Richard Lloyd, IPSA’s Chair, said:

“IPSA was set up 15 years ago to support MPs in their parliamentary duties, independently and transparently.

“Our annual spending publication is to show the public that their money is being spent responsibly, and regulated effectively, to maintain a healthy UK democracy.

“We are committed to ensuring MPs are funded adequately to carry out their duties both in Westminster and their constituencies, and supporting Parliament as a diverse and representative place where being an MP isn’t reserved for those wealthy enough to fund it themselves.”

As part of our regular bi-monthly publication, we have also published spending data for each MP in June and July 2025.

ENDS

For more details please contact IPSA's Press Office via communications@theipsa.org.uk.

Notes to editors 

  1. IPSA was created in 2009 by the Parliamentary Standards Act. The Act was amended in 2010 by the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act. Together they gave IPSA three main responsibilities: 

  2. to regulate MPs’ business costs 

  3. to determine MPs’ pay and pension arrangements 

  4. to provide financial support to MPs in carrying out their parliamentary functions 

  5. IPSA is independent of Parliament and the Government. This allows us to make decisions about the rules on business costs and on MPs’ pay ourselves, without interference. 

  6. The Scheme of MPs' Staffing and Business Costs ('the Scheme') governs what MPs can and cannot claim. We review our rules regularly and consult the public when we do so. 

  7. Our annual publication includes information previously published in our bi-monthly publications, alongside aggregated figures for travel and detail of payments related to the 2024 General Election. 

  8. When a General Election is over, former MPs may be eligible for two different types of payment: the loss-of-office payment (LOOP) and winding-up payment. There are also winding-up costs, which are inevitable in the transition between MPs, and there are separate criteria for each of these. 

  9. Our next scheduled bi-monthly publication is in January 2026.