IPSA publishes MPs' Business Costs for June 2021 to January 2022

Date published: 14 July 2022

IPSA has today released details of all claims, paid, repaid and unpaid, processed in the period from June 2021 to January 2022.

For details of all claims, including those published today, visit MPs' staffing and business costs.

Following a security review, IPSA is making changes in two areas to minimise risks: removing 'to/from' and 'details' from taxi claims and removing 'details' from venue hire and surgery claims.

IPSA will continue to redact information from other types of claims in line with our publication policy, whether to remove a security risk or to prevent personal information from being disclosed. Apart from the redacted items, we have now restored the detailed information on historical claims.

The data reflects claims processed in this period and should not be interpreted as a trend or pattern. MPs’ constituencies have a range of different characteristics for example size, population, urban or rural landscape and distance from Westminster, which makes comparisons between the data difficult.

To find out more, visit our article, Why does MPs’ spending vary so much?

The data for individual claims is stored on the website by the date on which a cost is incurred. Some travel claims reflect the date on which a transaction was processed rather than the date on which a journey was made.

IPSA has also recently released a public information video aimed at tackling some common misconceptions about MPs' business costs.

View the video and accompanying blog.

ENDS

For more details contact IPSA's Press Office.

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:

To regulate MPs’ business costs
To determine MPs’ pay and pension arrangements.
To provide financial support to MPs in carrying out their parliamentary functions.

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

3. 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.

4. Repayments are made to IPSA by MPs and third parties for a variety of reasons. These include: refunding items for which an MP no longer wishes to claim; refunding payment card transactions for which an MP does not wish to claim; and where an MP has received a rebate or refund from a third party, for example on their business rates or utility bills.

4. The next scheduled date for publication is September 2022.