Policy reviews

We conduct periodic reviews of our policies. Read our latest policy reports:

Market review of MPs’ staff pay and recommendations for 2023-24 (April 2023)

Policy review: Funding for MPs’ staff (March 2020)

Hays: Pay and job description review (September 2019)

Policy review: MPs’ constituency offices (August 2018)

Winding-up and LOOP (2023)

Below is information relating to the consultation period and 2023 policy changes concerning the loss of office payments (LOOP) and winding-up payments (WUP) to which MPs are entitled:

  1. 15 June 2022 Constituency boundary changes – Possible impacts on the Scheme (Board paper)

  2. 13 September 2022 Constituency boundary changes – Policy and Scheme revisions (Board paper)

  3. December 2022 Scheme changes for 2023-24 – LOOP & WUP consultation (Board paper)

  4. 29 March 2023 Updated scheme changes consultation (Board paper)

  5. 28 June 2023 Consultation on boundary changes and support to MPs leaving parliament – Analysis of responses (Board paper)

  6. 28 June 2023 Strategic communications – Improving IPSA programme (Board paper)

  7. Extract of minutes of IPSA Board meeting 28 June 2023 (presented as an extract as only one agenda item related to LOOP/WUP payments)

  8. Internal briefings and research

  9. Presentations

Where draft copies are available, these have been included at the end of the document after the final version (by which they were superseded).

As with any publication, IPSA must take into account the legislation that governs information access rights. In this case, some of the information has been redacted in accordance with FoIA sections 40(2) and 40(3A)(a). This is because it constitutes personal data within the meaning of Article 4(1) UK GDPR, which states that "'personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly."

Please note that an earlier report from 2019 also includes feedback on winding-up and LOOP payments.