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Question for Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

UIN 139116, tabled on 18 January 2021

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Labour
Slough
Commons

To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2021 to Question 136594, for what reasons IPSA recognise that Members' staff incur additional costs while working at home through introducing a monthly working from home payment, but do not consider volunteers to be similarly incurring additional costs while volunteering from home for an hon Member.

Answer

Sir Charles Walker
Conservative
Broxbourne
Commons

Answered on

21 January 2021

The payment the Hon Member refer's to is IPSA's administration of the tax-free allowance which can be paid to employees who are required to work from home, under HMRC rules. As a tax mechanism, this does not apply to people who volunteer.

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