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<p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Independent Parliamentary
Standards Authority. I have asked IPSA to reply.</p><p><em>Letter from Marcial Boo,
October 2014:</em></p><p>As Chief Executive of the Independent Parliamentary Standards
Authority, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking about
IPSA's consultation on the staffing expenditure budget.</p><p>IPSA last consulted
the public and MPs on the composition of the staffing expenditure budget in November
2011. We asked on what basis we should calculate the staffing expenditure budget and
whether we should take into account factors such as the relative deprivation of the
constituency. The relevant consultation question received 45 responses, four of which
mentioned interns. All of our public consultations and the responses are available
on our website <a href="http://www.parliamentarystandards.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.parliamentarystandards.org.uk</a></p><p>Following
the consultation, for 2012-13 we increased MPs’ staffing expenditure budgets by 19%
for non-London Area MPs and 25 per cent for London Area MPs.</p><p>We have reviewed
the level of the staffing expenditure budget as part of subsequent annual reviews
and further increased the budget by 1 per cent this year. For 2014-15 the budget is
£138,600 for non-London Area MPs and £145,500 for London Area MPs.</p><p> </p>
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