Gender breakdown of staff employed by MPs

IPSA holds the information you requested.

IPSA is responsible for paying the salaries and other employment costs of MPs’ staff members. These costs are paid from each MP’s Staffing Expenditure budget, in accordance with the Scheme of MPs’ Business Costs and Expenses (‘the Scheme’). As such, we hold information on each staff member employed by MPs and paid through IPSA’s payroll, including the staff member’s gender, the employee’s job title, the weekly hours worked and the staff member’s service start date.

I will take each of your questions in turn:

1. The number of female staff employed by MPs in 2015 and the number of male staff employed by MPs at that time.

2. The number of female staff employed by MPs currently and the number of male staff currently employed by MPs.

This concludes our response to your request.