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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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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.”

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Details of all ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ expenses claims can be viewed on the Parliament’s searchable database:

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

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’ 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: