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1464400

	registered interest
	date	19/05/2022
	answering body	Members Estimate Committee
	answering dept id	91
	answering dept short name	Members Estimate Committee
	answering dept sort name	Members Estimate Committee
	hansard heading	Representative Money
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Members Estimate Committee, how much Representative Money has been made available to elected Members who have not taken the Oath in each year between 2006 and 2022.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	5362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The table below details how much Representative Money has been made available to elected Members who have not taken the Oath in each year between 2006 and 2022:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Representative Money allocations, 2005/06-2021/22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Main budget (£)</p></td><td><p>Travel budget (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06*</p></td><td><p>35,163.00</p></td><td><p>868.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>86,245.00</p></td><td><p>2,136.07</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>90,036.00</p></td><td><p>2,230.05</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>93,639.00</p></td><td><p>2,319.26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>94,482.00</p></td><td><p>2,340.13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11** (1 Apr-5 May)</p></td><td><p>9,277.00</p></td><td><p>229.78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(6 May-31 Mar)</p></td><td><p>87,133.00</p></td><td><p>2,493.73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>101,004.00</p></td><td><p>2,890.59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>105,850.00</p></td><td><p>3,029.34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>109,135.00</p></td><td><p>3,123.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>112,076.00</p></td><td><p>3,207.58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16 # (1 Apr-7 May)</p></td><td><p>11,511.00</p></td><td><p>329.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(8 May-31 Mar)</p></td><td><p>87,783.00</p></td><td><p>1,898.90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>97,556.00</p></td><td><p>2,224.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18 $ (1 Apr-8 Jun)</p></td><td><p>18,737.00</p></td><td><p>431.41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(9 Jun-31 Mar)</p></td><td><p>130,970.00</p></td><td><p>2,901.64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>165,864.00</p></td><td><p>3,674.62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20 ^ (1 Apr-11 Dec)</p></td><td><p>117,986.27</p></td><td><p>2,613.95</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(12 Dec-31 Mar)</p></td><td><p>48,243.74</p></td><td><p>1,200.05</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>161,296.87</p></td><td><p>4,007.68</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>162,265.31</p></td><td><p>4,021.01</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Notes:</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>* from 1 November 2005-31 March 2006</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>** general election year full year allocations based on 2005 and 2010</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>general election results would have been:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Main budget</p></td><td><p>Travel budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005 results</p></td><td><p>£96,747</p></td><td><p>£2,396.30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 results</p></td><td><p>£96,374</p></td><td><p>£2,758.22</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p># general election year full year allocations based on 2010 and 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>general election results would have been:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Main budget</p></td><td><p>Travel budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 results</p></td><td><p>£113,867</p></td><td><p>£3,258.90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 results</p></td><td><p>£97,655</p></td><td><p>£2,112.46</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>$ general election year full year allocations based on 2015 and 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>general election results would have been:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Main budget</p></td><td><p>Travel budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 results</p></td><td><p>£99,116</p></td><td><p>£2,282.09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 results</p></td><td><p>£161,500</p></td><td><p>£3,578.03</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>^ general election year full year allocations based on 2015 and 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>general election results would have been:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Main budget</p></td><td><p>Travel budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 results</p></td><td><p>£169,345</p></td><td><p>£3,751.79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019 results</p></td><td><p>£159,074</p></td><td><p>£3,956.92</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This information can also be found on the App3 tab in the Excel spreadsheet (44 KB) accessed from the following link:<br><a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01663/" target="_blank">https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01663/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 24/05/2022 17:33:46 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1470685

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2022
	answering body	Members Estimate Committee
	answering dept id	91
	answering dept short name	Members Estimate Committee
	answering dept sort name	Members Estimate Committee
	hansard heading	Political Parties: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, representing the Members Estimate Committee, if he will publish the amount of (a) short money and (b) other additional parliamentary support funding provided to each political party on an annual basis since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
	uin	19001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>Since 2016–17 it has been a requirement to publish the amounts paid for each financial year and these can be found on the <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/foi/transparency-publications/hoc-transparency-publications/financial-information/financial-assistance-to-opposition-parties/" target="_blank">Parliament website</a>. The short money and Representative Money provided to each political party on an annual basis since 2015 can be found in the pdf attachment.</p><p>The Short Money and Representative Money allocations scheduled to be paid for the current financial year (1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023) are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Short/Representative Money Allocations 2022/2023</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Party</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Main Allocation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Travel Budget</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)</p></td><td><p>£202,484.60</p></td><td><p>£5,018.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Green Party</p></td><td><p>£187,111.20</p></td><td><p>£4,637.76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Labour Party</p></td><td><p>£6,812,568.25</p></td><td><p>£146,451.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liberal Democrats</p></td><td><p>£929,590.70</p></td><td><p>£23,040.69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plaid Cymru</p></td><td><p>£110,875.00</p></td><td><p>£2,748.13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scottish National Party (SNP)</p></td><td><p>£1,149,355.15</p></td><td><p>£28,487.72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)</p></td><td><p>£110,875.00</p></td><td><p>£2,748.13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sinn Fein *</p></td><td><p>£171,032.15</p></td><td><p>£4,239.21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>* Representative Money</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on previous budget allocations for Short Money and Representative Money can also be found on the App3 tab here:</p><p><a href="https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN01663/CBP01663-2021.xlsx" target="_blank">Data sheets for Library briefing on Short Money </a>(44 KB, Excel Spreadsheet)</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 27/06/2022 18:02:52 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker attachment 1 file name Short Money allocations.pdf title Short Money allocations
	tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1464963

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2022
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what the annual (a) rent and (b) other charges are for the IPSA premises at 85 Strand, London; how many staff are employed at that premises; and if he will make an estimate of how many and what proportion of those staff have worked from those offices in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	6697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>IPSA incurred costs of 508k on rent, rates, and service charges in the 2020-21 financial year. In 2021-22, this figure was 367k. IPSA currently has 97 contracted employees, of which 68% (66) are on office-based contracts and (32%) 31 are on home-based contracts. The difficult times brought about by the pandemic brought forward IPSA’s plans to create a more representative national organisation which better reflects the nations, regions, and constituencies our MPs serve. Recruiting staff from across the UK without the necessity of living within commuting distance of central London has delivered a more inclusive and diverse workforce, well-positioned to deliver services locally without the need for lengthy travel from London. Of the 66 employees on office-based contracts, all 66 have worked at some point in the past 12 months at the premises. The data for all 97 staff members, regardless of their contract type, also indicates that 100% of employees have worked from the premises at some point over the last 12 months.</p><p>The delay in providing a response to this Question was due to an administrative error in the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 24/10/2022 15:57:53 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1487967

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, when a response will be received to Question 6697 tabled by the hon. Member for Warley on 23 May 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	33681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The delay in providing responses to Questions 6697, 33681, 42245 and 45520 was due to an administrative error in the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 24/10/2022 15:58:50 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1491396

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how much the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if he will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Neale Hanvey
	uin	42245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>Due to a change in IPSA’s financial systems, it is technically highly difficult for IPSA to provide the information in the detail requested for the previous five years. In its annual accounts, however, IPSA have presented annual expenditure on consultancy, including £55k for 2017-18 (Human Resources advice, reviews and surveys: £11,000, Information Technology projects: £37,000, and IPSA Online project: £7,000). For 2018-19, the figure was £315k (Human Resources advice, reviews and surveys: £18,000, Implementation of GDPR legislation: £40,000, Information Technology projects: £44,000, and IPSA Online project: £213,000). For 2019-20, the figure was £300k (Organisational improvements for the Chief Executive’s Office: £43,000, System maintenance and continuous improvement programme: £182,000, Organisational redesign by the HR department: £60,000, Business Support to MP Support and general professional advice: £15,000). For 2020-21, the figure was £530k (Organisational redesign work: £206,000, Business and technical support and general professional advice: £200,000, System maintenance and continuous improvement programme: £123,000, and Professional Advice to Compliance Office: £1,000). For 2021-22, the figure was £263k (Organisational redesign work: £161,000, Business and technical support and general professional advice: £39,000, System maintenance and continuous improvement programme: £56,000, and Governance: £7,000).</p><p>The delay in providing a response to this Question was due to an administrative error in the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 24/10/2022 16:00:49 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4782 label Biography information for Neale Hanvey

1503797

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, pursuant to Named Day Question 33681 on Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Written Questions tabled by the hon. Member for Warley on 11 July 2022 for written answer on 14 July 2022, when he plans to answer Question 6697 tabled by the hon. Member for Warley on 23 May 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	45520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The delay in providing responses to Questions 6697, 33681, 42245 and 45520 was due to an administrative error in the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 24/10/2022 15:59:43 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1536544

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2022
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, pursuant to his answer of 24 October to Question 6697 on Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what the average daily attendance of staff at IPSA London Office was in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	72197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>Average attendance at the London office has been monitered carefully be IPSA and is calculated by working days in the calender month (and is only based on current office-based staffing numbers (66)). This does not, however, include a number of IPSA people based on home-base contracts who make regular journeys into the office, particularly when based a short distance from the London region. It should be noted at the outset too that the discovery and surge of the Omicron variant, which necessitated public health advice to work from home, will have had an impact on the data from at least last Autumn 2021 to Spring 2022. For nearly the entire time period requested in the question, a significant number of desks were unavailable for use in the IPSA office to maintain appropiate social distancing in the context of IPSA's office layout. As only 32 of the possible 81 desks were available for use from 201 to the end of September 2022, this further materially reduced capacity within and attendance at the office. Noting the desks available and the number of staff available on office-based contracts, the general figures are below:</p><ul><li>October 2021: 9% (This should be read as the average office-based contract employee spendin 9% of their working month in the office in October 2021 and so on for the following months). This constituted 18% of available desks.</li><li>November 2021: 9%. This constituted 20% of available desks.</li><li>December 2021: 7%. This constituted 15% of available desks.</li><li>January 2022: 5%. This constituted 9% of available desks.</li><li>February 2022: 8%. This constituted 17% of available desks.</li><li>March 2022: 7%. This constituted 14% of available desks.</li><li>April 2022: 8%. This constituted 16% of available desks.</li><li>May 2022: 8%. This constituted 16% of available desks.</li><li>June 2022: 6%. This constituted 13% of available desks.</li><li>July 2022: 7%. This constituted 14% of available desks.</li><li>August 2022: 6%. This constituted 13% of available desks.</li><li>September 2022: 7%. This constituted 14% of available desks.</li><li>October 2022: now that all the desks are available for use, the desk booking system upon which the data above is based is no longer operative, so this figure cannot be produced.</li></ul><p>Like many organisations in the publice sector, IPSA recognised many benefits for its people and performance in continuing with a hybrid approach to work despite a lifting of formal coronavirus restrictions and other government public health advice. IPSA functions, such as payroll accuracy and the speed of reimbursement, have not been adversely impacted by such a model, and IPSA has instead been able to build a more inclusive and diverse workforce based accross the U.K. by bringing forward plans to create a more representative, hybrid, and flexibe organisation to reflect the nations, regions and constituencies MPs serve. The geographical spread of IPSA staff, new hybrid approach to working, and importance of value for money for the public purse will be central considerations for IPSA when it explores the locations and size of any office premises (in London or elsewhere) which it may require in future to continue to discharge its statutory duties efficiently, cost-effectively, and transparently.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 03/11/2022 10:47:17 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1536546

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2022
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what consideration has been given to moving IPSA's headquarters out of Central London.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	72198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>Before moving to its current location in March 2019, IPSA consided sites in Milton Keynes and Croydon, as well as Stratford and Canary Wharf. At that time, before the Covid-19 pandemic, a central London presence was deemed best placed to offer support to MPs and enable employees working from the office to attend meetings in Parliament at short notice. Going forward, IPSA will once again approach its future needs in a careful and considered way to ensure that its premises are conductive to offering a high-quality service to MPs and their staff, in addition to delivering good value for money for the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 01/11/2022 10:21:53 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1583576

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2023
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, on what dates the Board is scheduled to meet.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	139279
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>In 2023, the IPSA Board has scheduled Board meetings on 22 February, 29 March, 28 June, 12 and 13 September, 18 October, and 13 December.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 09/02/2023 09:04:51 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1583577

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2023
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how many meetings the Authority had with staff representative bodies before the announcement of staffing budgets.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	139280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>Whilst IPSA cannot enter into formal negotiations that would have any binding effect on the individual decisions of MPs as employers, IPSA is happy to work in any effective way that it can with staff representatives to ensure that their voice is heard, and seen to be heard.</p><p>IPSA does not set MPs’ staff pay as MPs are the individual employers of their staff as a matter of law. IPSA has, however, proactively sought meetings and discussions with staff representatives and has significantly increased engagement with MPs’ staff over recent years. This has included regular meetings with its MP Staff User Group, joining the House of Commons’ Office Manager group, and through inviting staff representatives, such as Unite, the Members and Peers’ Staff Association (MAPSA), and Wellness Working Group, to IPSA Board meetings to share their insight and views. IPSA has also liaised in recent years with the GMB trade union.</p><p>IPSA is very grateful for the high volume of valuable feedback it has received through these series of feedback channels. This has enabled IPSA to survey MP staff on casework workload, budgets, and wellbeing, and check in at each House Office Manager meeting, with such engagement valuable to IPSA in proposing a staffing uplift during the covid-19 pandemic and in establishing an exceptional funding process for the pressures created during the Afghan withdrawal in August 2021.</p><p>In addition to the channels above, direct representations from staff groups were considered as part of the proposals which IPSA made on MPs’ staffing budgets. Specific examples for 2023/24 budgets include meetings with Unite and MAPSA on 26 May, 14 June, and 21 November 2022, and with the GMB union on 16 December.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 09/02/2023 09:05:11 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle