How can I check my MP's expenses?

MPs' expenses, now called staffing and business costs, are paid and published by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), not by Parliament. On IPSA's website you can search by MP or postcode to see individual claims, annual spending against each budget and staff payroll costs, with records from 2010-11 onwards.

IPSA publishes new claims every two months, usually four to five months after they were processed. IPSA says staffing accounts for up to 80% of MPs' business costs, so a large total mostly reflects office and staff costs rather than personal spending. Security and disability assistance costs are published only as overall totals, and some travel details are withheld for security reasons, so totals for individual MPs are not complete.

Official sources: IPSA: search MPs' business costs · IPSA guide to MPs' business costs

When is the next figure out?

Hansard is published on every sitting day, with Commons debates normally online within a few hours and division lists soon after each vote. Written answers appear on the questions site once departments submit them, usually the same day. The Commons register of interests is updated regularly, roughly fortnightly when the House sits, and MPs must register new interests within 28 days. IPSA publishes MPs' business costs every two months, covering claims processed four to five months earlier, and announces MPs' pay for the year from April. Parliament's calendar shows sitting days and recess dates.

Every official release due in the next two weeks is on the release calendar.

Where the figures come from

• UK Parliament records: Hansard, votes, questions, interests and bills
  How to search Hansard, Commons and Lords votes, written questions, MPs' interests, IPSA expenses, bills and committee evidence, plus free APIs.

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