Members' pay and expenses 2025/26
This briefing looks at MPs' pay and expenses and how they are determined. It reports salary levels and budget limits for MPs' expenses since 2010.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) is responsible for determining and paying MPs’ salaries. It also administers, reviews and revises the scheme for paying other allowances (such as MPs’ expenses), and pays those allowances.
It has no role in determining or paying ministerial salaries.
Most of the figures in this paper refer to the financial year 2025/26 unless otherwise stated.
MPs’ salariesFrom 1 April 2025, the annual salary of a Member of Parliament increased by 2.8%, to £93,094.
Under section 4A of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009, IPSA is required to review MPs’ pay in the first year after a general election.
On 24 March 2025, IPSA announced the new rate for 2025/26 and confirmed that its statutory review of MPs’ salaries would take place within a year of the election. Because the beginning of a new financial year would come first, IPSA announced that “as an interim measure IPSA will adjust MPs’ salaries with a 2.8% uplift for 2025-26” to £93,904, from 1 April 2025. This followed a consultation on the interim measure.
In October 2025, IPSA launched a consultation on MPs’ pay in the current Parliament. It said that the consultation before its interim review of pay for April 2025 had fulfilled its statutory obligation to review MPs’ pay within the first year of a Parliament.
On 2 March 2026, IPSA announced that MPs’ salaries would increase by 5% to £98,599 from 1 April 2026.
The increase comprised “a 1.5% benchmarking adjustment, as well as a 3.5% cost-of-living increase”. IPSA also said that a benchmarking analysis it had undertaken, comparing MPs’ pay with senior roles in civic society and MPs in other democracies, suggested that MPs should receive a salary of around £110,000 by the scheduled end of the current Parliament. IPSA aims to increase MPs’ salaries to this level by increments over the next three years.
MPs’ expensesSince the 2010 general election, IPSA has been responsible for devising a scheme for and paying MPs’ expenses.
The main expense budgets provided in IPSA’s scheme, and the maximum amounts that MPs can claim in 2025/26, are set out below:
Expenditure Area Budget(£ per annum) Accommodation Costs
London Area (rent)
Outside London Area (rent)
Own home
31,840
21,680
6,870 Caring responsibility (per dependant)* 7,270 London Area Living Payment
London Area Living Payment (addition) 4,845
1,725 Staffing Costs
London-Area MPs
Non London-Area MPs
281,980
263,370 Office Costs
London-Area MPs
Non London-Area MPs
Start-up Supplement
39,560
35,930
6,000 Winding-up Costs
London-Area MPs
Non London-Area MPs
Existing budgets pro-rated for the
four-month winding-up period Winding-up Payment (at a general election) Four months’ salary**
* since 2021/22 this has been referred to as an accommodation uplift for MPs with caring responsibilities
** net of tax and National Insurance contributions. The Winding-Up Payment covers the period when MPs are winding up their financial affairs and closing their offices.
This briefing is one of a series of Library briefings that has reported on Members’ pay and expenses and, in the past, on ministerial salaries. A full listing of these briefings since 2001 is provided on the Commons Library website: