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: 25 March 2025 – pursuant to the answer of 17 March 2025 to question 38862, whether an estimate was made of the potential savings to the public purse of abolishing diversity, equality and inclusion roles

Question for SCIPSA: 17 March 2025 – whether an estimate was made of the potential savings to the public purse of abolishing diversity, equality and inclusion roles

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