Written Question·Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority·UIN 117385

Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Staff

Tabled: 3 March 2026

Answered: 9 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

To ask the hon. Member for Warrington North, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how IPSA assesses how many staff are required to meet workload demands on hon. Members' offices; and how is this scrut

Answer

Charlotte Nichols

The core MPs' staffing budget is set at a level that will accomadate a 'notional' office of five full time equivalent staff, but is intended to provide flexibility for MPs to decide how best to staff their office. For example, an MP could decide to have f...

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