questionText: To ask the hon. Member for Warrington North, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, whether IPSA has undertaken research on the potential link between (a) average headcount per office, (b) average salaries for staff and (c) constituency populations, constituency deprivation levels, social housing waiting lists, hon. Members' additional parliamentary responsibilities and other constituency demographic information.
answerText: IPSA funds MPs to undertake their parliamentary duties and this includes providing MPs with budgets for travel, accomodation, office costs, and staffing. The MP is the legal employer of their staff. The structure of an MP's office and the management of th...
heading: Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Research