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Members' allowances

Details of expenditure for:

  • Members of the House of Commons
  • Members of the House of Lords
  • Law Lords' expenses
  • Financial assistance to Opposition parties in the House of Lords.

House of Commons

IPSA (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority) took over responsibility for the payment of Members' expenses from 7 May 2010. For information on the new MPs' expenses scheme, please visit IPSA's website.

Details of allowances for earlier allowance periods are provided  below:

Allowances by MP

2004/05 to the third quarter of 2009/10

In June 2009 more than a million documents and receipts were published online. These related to MPs' claims dating back to 2004/05 and up to 2007/08. In December 2009 these pages were updated to include information about MPs' claims made for costs incurred when staying away from their main home in 2008/09 and the first quarter of 2009/10. Further updates are now available via a searchable database.

Searchable database of allowances by MP from 2008/09 onwards 

From February 2010 the House of Commons published a searchable database of payments taken from its electronic records. The database now covers 2008/09 to the third quarter of 2009/10.

It currently links to the scans of documents submitted in support of claims made against:

  • Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) - paid to reminburse Members for necessary costs incurred when staying overnight away from their main home in each year from 2004/05 to 2008/09

  • Personal Additional Accommodation Expenditure (PAAE which replaced ACA in April 2009) - paid to reminburse Members for necessary costs incurred when staying overnight away from their main home.

  • Communications Allowance for 2008/09 - designed to help Members communicate proactively with their constituents about their work in furtherance of their parliamentary duties.

The scans for claims relating to Incidental Expenses Provision (IEP) for 2008/09 will be published later in the year, as will remaining PAAE scans for the remaining quarters of 2009/10.

House of Commons: Members' Allowance Expenditure
Details of allowance expenditure by Members of Parliament in 2008/09 and first quarter of 2010.

House of Lords

House of Lords: Members' Expenses
Full details of expenditure on expenses for Members of the House of Lords, Law Lords' expenses, and financial assistance to Opposition parties in the House of Lords

Members' Reimbursement Allowance Scheme - A General Guide
A general guide to the House of Lords expenses scheme

Lords' expenses: investigations
Results of investigations into complaints relating to expenses claims by Members of the House of Lords  

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The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) took over responsibility for the payment of MPs' expenses from 7 May 2010