Members’ pay and expenses: Index of Library briefings

When the House of Commons was responsible for determining MP’s pay and allowances, the Library regularly prepared briefings for debates on these issues.

Since the establishment of IPSA, the Library has reported the main changes (year by year) in the IPSA’s MPs’ expenses scheme; the budgets for expenses; and MPs’ salaries.

Developments since 2001 are reported in the following briefings.

Parliamentary Pay and Allowances: The Current Rates, RP 01/43, 3 April 2001

Parliamentary pay, allowances and pensions: the reviews of 2001, RP 01/86, 8 November 2001

Parliamentary pay and allowances: current rates, RP 01/87, 8 November 2001

Members’ office costs: the new system, RP 01/88, 8 November 2001

Parliamentary pay and allowances, RP 03/64, 16 July 2003

Parliamentary pay and allowances, RP 04/40, 18 May 2004

Parliamentary pay and allowances, RP 05/42, 9 June 2005

Parliamentary pay and allowances, RP 06/47, 9 October 2006

Parliamentary pay, allowances and pensions, RP 08/31, 31 March 2008

Members’ pay and the independent review process, RP 09/29, 31 March 2009

Members’ allowances, RP 09/60 25 June 2009

Members’ pay and expenses – current rates and a review of developments since 2009, RP 12/29, 22 May 2012

Members’ pay and expenses – current rates from 1 April 2013, RP 13/33, 31 May 2013

Members’ pay and expenses 2015/16, CBP07546, 31 March 2016

Members’ pay and expenses and ministerial salaries 2016/17, CBP07762, 10 November 2016

Members’ pay and expenses and ministerial salaries 2017/18, CBP08276, 29 March 2018

Members’ pay and expenses and ministerial salaries 2018/19, CBP08535, 27 March 2019

Members’ pay and expenses and ministerial salaries 2019/20, CBP08839, 2 March 2020

Members’ pay and expenses and ministerial salaries 2020/21, CBP09148, 25 February 2021

Members’ pay and expenses and ministerial salaries 2021/22, CBP09514, 30 March 2022