IPSA publishes new Scheme of MPs' Staffing and Business Costs and Annual Survey findings

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has today published their Scheme for MPs' Staffing and Business Costs for 2022-23. This is the fourteenth edition of the Scheme.

The full document can be viewed here, and guidance on changes that IPSA has made to the Scheme can be viewed here.

IPSA has also published their findings from their annual survey of MPs and their staff.

The full report can be found here.

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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.