Members’ pay and expenses 2024/25

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) is responsible for determining and paying Members’ salaries; for preparing and regularly reviewing and revising a scheme under which allowances are paid; and for paying those allowances.

It has no role in determining or paying ministerial salaries.

Most of the figures in this paper refer to the financial year 2024/25 unless otherwise stated.

Members’ salaries

From 1 April 2024, the annual salary of a Member of Parliament increased by 5.5% to £91,346 (PDF), in accordance with IPSA’s 2015 and 2021 decisions on the annual uprating of MPs’ salaries.

Under section 4A of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009, IPSA is required to undertake a statutory review of Members’ pay in the first year after a general election.

In July 2015, IPSA had determined that MPs’ salaries should rise in line with public sector pay.

In 2017, no changes were made to the determination made in 2015.

Following the December 2019 general election, IPSA launched the statutory consultation, the Periodic Adjustment to MPs’ Pay, on 8 October 2020. It proposed retaining the link between public sector earnings and Members’ pay. The consultation closed on 6 November 2020.

However, in December 2020, following the consultation, IPSA announced that MPs’ pay would be frozen in April 2021.

In July 2021, IPSA launched a further consultation about the mechanism that IPSA should use to update MPs’ pay. It proposed that for the next three years it should have “some bounded discretion” to depart from the public sector pay figure. In September 2021, its report Consultation report: mechanism for updating MPs’ salaries (PDF) confirmed this approach and included a further revised determination.

During the first year of the 2024 Parliament, IPSA will have to conduct a statutory review of MPs’ pay.

On 24 March 2025, IPSA confirmed that the statutory review would take place within a year of the election. Because the beginning of a new financial year will come first, IPSA announced “as an interim measure IPSA will adjust MPs’ salaries with a 2.8% uplift for 2025-26” to £93,904, from 1 April 2025.

Members’ expenses

Since the 2010 general election, responsibility for devising a scheme for and paying Members’ expenses has rested with IPSA. 

IPSA undertook a comprehensive review of the Scheme, which began with a consultation issued in May 2016.

The review identified a number of changes that would be implemented following a general election, which at the time was scheduled for May 2020. The early General Election in June 2017 meant that some changes were implemented in the course of the 2017/18 financial year. 

Following IPSA’s statutory review (PDF) of MPs’ pay at the beginning of the 2017 Parliament, it made alterations (PDF) to the arrangements for MPs who lost their seats at a general election. It introduced a new Winding-Up Payment for MPs – this was set at two months’ net salary for MPs defeated at any general election and for MPs standing down at an early general election.

The 17th Edition of IPSA’s Scheme of MPs’ Staffing and Business Costs (PDF) came into force on 1 April 2024.

In the course of the 2023/24 financial year, IPSA made changes to the support that MPs who left Parliament at a general election after 19 July 2023 would receive. Notably, the winding-up period was extended from two to four months and the Winding-Up Payment for MPs who left at a general election, either because they were defeated or because they stood down, would be doubled to the equivalent of four months’ net salary. MPs who left before the 2024 general election had two months to wind-up their offices, and would be financially supported for the two-month period.

The main expense budgets provided in IPSA’s scheme; and the maximum amounts that Members can claim in 2024/25 are set out below: 

* since 2021/22 this has been referred to as an accommodation uplift for MPs with caring responsibilities

** net of tax and National Insurance contributions. The Winding-Up Payment covers the period when MPs are winding up their financial affairs and closing their offices.

This briefing is one of a series of Library briefings that has reported on Members’ pay and expenses and, in the past, on ministerial salaries. A full listing of these briefings since 2001 is provided on the Commons Library website:

• Members’ pay and expenses: Index of Library briefings