IPSA supports more than 2,000 people who lost their parliamentary jobs after 2024 UK General Election

More than 2,000 people left their job as a result of the 2024 UK General Election.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), which regulates and administers MPs' business costs and staffing, says it processed redundancy payments for 2,023 people who worked for Members of Parliament after the election, as well as 350 MPs.

This accounted for around a quarter of the £52.8m total additional funding provided by IPSA to enable the transition from one parliament to the next.

By comparison, at the 2019 General Election 154 MPs were replaced, leading to the redundancies of 460 members of staff.

This means the number of people supported by IPSA – including constituency caseworkers, parliamentary assistants and administrative support workers – after losing their job grew by 286% at the 2024 General Election.

The turnover rate of MPs at the 2024 General Election was 51%, higher than at any UK election in more than fifty years.

Richard Lloyd OBE, IPSA Chair, says:

“This was a once-in-a-generation change of parliament.

“An MP’s office is like a small business. They are the employer, and any MP not returned in the 2024 General Election had until 4 November to close down their office entirely.

“IPSA’s task was to support the thousands of newly-unemployed members of staff and facilitate the transition between parliaments.

“IPSA is proud of its role in supporting a representative parliament, where people without private finances shouldn’t be prevented from becoming an MP – or working for one.”

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 make decisions about the rules on business costs and on MPs’ pay ourselves, without interference.