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MSPs’ expenses information for 2021/22 published online
14 December 2022
A briefing paper setting out end year total expenditure figures is also published today.
The end year total for the financial year 2021/22 is £22,240,702 which is an increase of £4,952,168 or 28.64% on the previous year’s corresponding figure of £17,288,534.
The rise is primarily attributable to a £36,700 a year increase in MSPs Staff Cost Provision – the fund which enables MSPs to employ staff – that came into effect in April 2021.
The additional resource, first announced in December 2020, was introduced to enable MSPs to employ an additional member of staff following a significant rise in MSPs’ casework supporting their constituents.
The 2021/22 expenditure figures also include non-recurring winding up costs at the time of the May 2021 Scottish Election.
A Scottish Parliament spokesperson said:
“This is the first year (2021/22) in which the additional Staff Cost Provision came into effect. It enabled MSPs to employ up to four full time staff instead of three, helping to deal with the ‘explosion’ of case work that arose during the pandemic and with new social security powers coming into force.”
Background
Search function: Details of all MSPs expenses claims can be viewed on the Parliament’s searchable database:
Scottish Parliament MSP Allowances Search
2021/22 briefing document:
A briefing document setting out expenditure details as a whole for 2021/22 can be found here:
Total costs for the financial year | Scottish Parliament Website
MSPs expenses scheme
More information on the Expenses’ Scheme is available here:
Search MSP expenses | Scottish Parliament Website
MSP staff salary information
Expenses in Open Data format
Quarterly expenses information is also published in an open data format that is machine-readable and enables the user to manage raw information and re-present in different ways.
The data sets can be accessed via our API or as a single downloadable item which is around 60-70MB in size.
Links to our Open Data pages:
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