MSPs’ expenses information for 2022/23 published online

A briefing paper setting out end year total expenditure figures is also published today.

The end year total for the financial year 2022/23 is £23.468 million. This represents an increase of £1.2 million or 5.5% on the previous year’s corresponding figure of £22.241 million.

A Scottish Parliament spokesperson said:

“As with every year, staff salaries comprise the largest single expense, with £19.1m covering staff employment in MSPs parliamentary and local offices – that’s 81.6% of the total cost. 

“The remainder covers the cost of running those offices, travel, and support for party leaders who are not in government.”

Search function

Details of all MSPs expenses claims can be viewed on the Parliament’s searchable database:

Scottish Parliament MSP Allowances Search

2022/23 briefing document

A briefing document setting out expenditure details as a whole for 2022/23 can be found here:

Total costs for the financial year

MSP staff salary information

Staff costs for 2022/23 can be found here:

Staff cost provision: 2022-23

MSPs’ expenses scheme

More information on the Expenses’ Scheme is available here:

Search MSP expenses

Expenses in Open Data format

Quarterly expenses information is also published in an open data format that is machine-readable and enables the user to manage raw information and re-present in different ways.

The data sets can be accessed via our API or as a single downloadable item which is around 60-70MB in size.

Quarters 1-3 for 2022/23 are already available. Note: Quarter 4 will be available in open data format from 5 November.

Links to our Open Data pages:

Home page for Open Data

Link to the Datasets we publish