MP's expenses, Christmas jumpers

Request

How many MPs claimed expenses for Christmas Jumpers in 2020 and their costs.

I would like to receive this information electronically.

If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.

If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.

Response

IPSA regulates and administers staffing and business costs incurred by MPs during the course of their parliamentary duties. The fundamental principles and rules that MPs must operate within when claiming business costs are set out in the ‘Scheme of MPs’ Staffing and Business Costs’.

Details of claims made by MPs are published on the ‘MPs’ staffing and business costs’ section of our website. This page has links to individual and annual data. For details of individual business costs, navigate to the ‘Annual budgets, costs and claims’ where you can download data by financial year. You can then filter by cost type or search by key word, for example, ‘Christmas’.

As information about claims can be found on our website, it is subject to a Refusal Notice under section 21 of the FOIA (information reasonably accessible by other means).

Ref:
RFI-202111-14
Disclosure:
26 November 2021
Categories:
IPSA - FINANCIAL
Exemptions Applied:
Section 21