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  • Professionalising the career path for MPs’ staff

    A consultation seeking views on some proposed changes for MPs staff to take effect from April 2026.

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  • Question 1. Should IPSA revisit the pay ranges once the benchmarking exercise is concluded to ensure more consistent width and overlap between ranges?
  • Question 2a. Should IPSA create a minimum pay policy for substantive roles (excluding interns) using an appropriate fixed percentage above the National Living Wage?
  • Question 3. Is creating an additional leadership level above the three existing job families the right approach?
  • Question 4. Should IPSA apply a default to all new contracts created on the online contract generator tool to a 37.5 hour working week with the option to manually override that if a different FTE working week is desired?
  • Question 6a: Do you agree that this approach would ensure that job descriptions would better reflect the reality of working in an MPs’ office? Are there any other changes that would help to achieve this?
  • Question 6b: Is there a need to reduce the number of job titles which can be used under each job role?
  • Question 8b. Should MPs have discretion to provide ‘high-cost area allowances’ to their staff?

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