Parliamentary Allowances

Under Freedom of Information legislation, the House of Commons is required to publish detailed breakdowns of amounts and receipts in respect of the cost of running MPs' offices, travel, staffing and use of other allowances. Immediately this is for the four years financial years to 31st March, 2008.

On 21st May, Paul and fellow Labour MPs in North Staffordshire advanced the publication of their Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) - the cause of so much controversy in the Daily Telegraph - to the local media. In addition, Paul also gave to The Sentinel and Radio Stoke details of his ACA costs up to date for 2008/9.

Since then, the House of Commons has recently published all MPs' costs for the other elements of maintaining offices. If you would like to see Paul's please [click here] and you will be redirected to the parliamentary website.

Overall totals for the various categories of cost have been published covering from 2001/2 onwards; the difference now is that a detailed breakdown by individual bill or receipt is being released.