“Are any of our MPs worth £68k (plus all their expenses of course)??

From IPSA MP salary from April 2014 is £67,060 plus up to £36,465 in living expenses (e.g. for maintaining a second home) plus £159,950 for running their office (i.e. sometimes with salaries paid to members of their families such as husbands or wives).

If they are members or chairs of select committees they can earn a further £14,876. Or if you are a minister you can earn between £89,435 and £134,565 extra.

So that means that Hugo Swire gets a tad under £200,000 payments for himself (inc. living expenses) and a further c. £160,000 to run his MP’s office – so he costs us £360,000.

So the question I would ask is whether Hugo Swire is worth £360,000 per year?”