MPs’ staffing and business costs
MPs are elected to represent your interests and concerns at a national level. They receive public funding which allows them to run a local office and employ staff.
We allocate specific budgets to MPs to pay for these roles and activities.
The Scheme of MPs’ Staffing and Business Costs sets the rules on what MPs can and can’t make claims for.

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Learn about MPs’ claims
Discover how and why MPs claim for their staffing and business costs.
Read about MPs’ staffing and business costsOther payment data
Read about how we publish details of security and disability costs, any debts written-off, as winding-up and Capital Gains payments.
Visit Other payment dataConstituency mileage
During the 2019-20 financial year we piloted a new approach to reimbursing MPs for the mileage costs they incur travelling around their constituencies.
Read more about the pilot