Royston Smith – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Royston Smith on 2016-03-08.

To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what the (a) ethnicity and (b) gender is of each staff member employed by hon. Members.

Mr Charles Walker

As at 9 March 2016, 3,161 individuals were employed by MPs and paid through IPSA’s payroll. Of these, 1795 were female and 1366 were male.

IPSA does not collect or hold data on the ethnicity of MPs’ staff.