Responses to parliamentary questions

During the course of parliament, MPs will ask questions about our function, costs, and policies.

The written responses to these questions can be found by following the links below.

Question for SCIPSA: 11 February 2025 – what assessment has been made of the adequacy of time taken and cost to administer claims made to IPSA by MPs' offices

Question for SCIPSA: 11 February 2025 – whether an assessment will be made of the potential merits of asking the National Audit Office to undertake a value-for-money review

Question for SCIPSA: 10 February 2025 – what recent discussions were had with IPSA on its definition of an MP's parliamentary duties

Question for SCIPSA: 4 February 2025 – whether an assessment will be made of the potential merits of increasing staff salary pay scales so parliamentary advisors can be paid the same as MPs

Question for SCIPSA: 3 February 2025 – what assessment the Committee has made of the effectiveness of the technology platform used to process and administer MPs' business costs

Question for SCIPSA: 24 January 2025 – whether an assessment will be made of the adequacy of the transparency of governance arrangements for IPSA

Question for SCIPSA: 23 January 2025 – what the percentage increases were for MP's staffing budgets and IPSA staffing expenditure between financial years 2018-19 and 2024-25

Question for SCIPSA: 21 January 2025 – what proportion of employee work-time was spent working from home and an IPSA office location in 2023-24

Question for SCIPSA: 21 January 2025 – whether IPSA plans to implement efficiency savings to reduce operating costs to the levels of 2018-19

Question for SCIPSA: 12 December 2024 – how many employee settlement agreements there were in IPSA in each year since 2020 and what the total value was

Question for SCIPSA: 12 December 2024 – whether the Committee will assess the potential merits of commissioning an independent review of IPSA's operational effectiveness and value for money

Question for SCIPSA: 12 December 2024 – whether the Committee will make a comparative assessment of the value for money provided by IPSA and the pre-2010 system for reimbursing MPs' staffing and business costs

Question for SCIPSA: 21 March 2024 – details of any assessment of the effectiveness of the handling of MPs' business costs claims by IPSA

Question for SCIPSA: 8 November 2023 – details of the number of public and private meetings held by SCIPSA in the previous four years

Question for SCIPSA: 16 October 2023 – number of employed IPSA staff, and the proportion of whom work in the IPSA office regularly

Question for SCIPSA: Written questions, 3 February – publication of the findings of the March 2020 Hays recruitment report on comparable job roles and salaries

Question for SCIPSA: Written questions, 3 February – meetings with representative bodies before the announcement of staffing budgets

Question for SCIPSA: Written questions, 3 February – dates of scheduled IPSA Board meetings

Question for SCIPSA: Written questions, 3 February – when staffing budget proposals for 2023-24 were presented to the board

Question for SCIPSA: Written questions, 26 October (2) – consideration given to moving IPSA office outside of Central London

Question for SCIPSA: Written questions, 26 October (1) – attendance of staff at London office

Question for SCIPSA: Written questions, 2 September 2022

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – consultants, 21 July 2022

Question for SCIPSA: Written questions, 11 July 2022

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – buildings and staff, 23 May 2022

Question for SCIPSA: Members' staff – pay, 15 September 2021

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – buildings, 22 March 2021

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – staff, 22 March 2021

Question for SCIPSA: Members' staff – voluntary work, 18 January 2021

Question for SCIPSA: Members' staff – allowances, 18 January 2021

Question for SCIPSA: Members' staff – voluntary work, 12 January 2021

Question for SCIPSA: Members' staff – voluntary work, 12 January 2021

Question for SCIPSA: Members' staff – voluntary work, 30 December 2020

Question for SCIPSA: Members – staff, 10 December 2020

Question for SCIPSA: Coronavirus – IPSA telephone lines, answered 19 May 2020

Question for SCIPSA: Salaries of IPSA permanent staff, 6 February 2020

Question for SCIPSA: Members – allowances, 30 January 2020

Question for SCIPSA: Members – pay, 30 January 2020

Question for Cabinet Office: Ministers – harassment, 4 November 2019

Question for Women and Equalities: Members – maternity leave, 30 September 2019

Question for SCIPSA: Members – travel, 30 September 2019

Question for House of Commons Commission: Prorogation – costs, 30 September 2019

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – costs of IPSA Online, 10 July 2019 (UIN 273316)

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – costs of IPSA Online, 10 July 2019 (UIN 272731)

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – answering queries, 25 June 2019

Question for SCIPSA: Members – allowances, 20 June 2019

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – working hours, 20 June 2019

Question for SCIPSA: Members – email, 20 June 2019

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – offices, 20 June 2019

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – location, 20 June 2019

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – benefits of IPSA Online, 13 June 2019

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – buildings, 5 June 2019

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – costs of IPSA Online, 20 May 2019

Question for SCIPSA: IPSA – buildings, 20 May 2019

Question for SCIPSA: Members – allowances, 7 May 2019 Question for SCIPSA: Members – finance, 14 March 2019

Question for SCIPSA: Parental leave, 11 October 2018

Question for SCIPSA: Members' constituency work, 28 March 2018