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Members' pay and expenses 2025/26

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’ salaries

From 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’ expenses

Since 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: 

* 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:

• Members’ pay and expenses: Index of Library briefings