Helen Grant MP

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Dear Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority,

Please advise the reasons given for the departures of, and large turnover of staffing at the office of Helen Grant over the past 3 years.

Please provide the Salaries earned/costs of the employment of Helen Grants Husband as her Senior Parliamentary Assistant over the past 3 years.

Ms Grant and her Husband (Senior assistant to Ms Helen Grant MP) have hired their former personal employee of Ms Grant (From Grants Solicitors LLP) as Parliamentary Assistant.
Was the vacancy available to anyone/local press/Job Centre to apply? If not , why not.
Please provide the Salaries earned/costs of this employment

Ms Grants - 2nd Senior Parliamentary Assistant - Mr Rolfe: Please provide the Salaries earned/costs of the employment.

Please provide full 5 years expenses of Helen Grant MP for her local work as MP for Maidstone & Weald

Please provide expenses of Ms Grant MP in her role within CCHQ, since her appointment.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Elliott

FOI, Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Dear Mr Elliott,

 

Thank you for your email of 21 August 2018, reference CAS-122258.

 

Details of business costs and expenses claimed by MPs are published on our
website. You can find details of claims made by Helen Grant MP at the
following address:
[1]http://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-costs/your-....

 

The published information also includes details of each MP’s staffing
arrangements, including the amount paid to her connected party (within
£5,000 salary bands). We don’t publish precise salaries paid to staff
members as this is personal data, but the salary band for a Senior
Parliamentary Assistant is between £30,290 and £43,881 for non-London
staff and £33,000 and £49,793 for London staff.

 

MPs are the legal employers of their staff and are responsible for all
aspects of recruitment. We do not hold information on the advertisement of
vacancies.

 

IPSA only covers costs that MPs incur in their parliamentary functions and
so I’m afraid we don’t hold any information relating to Ms Grant’s role
within CCHQ.

 

I hope this helps. Please let me know if I can be of any further
assistance.

 

Kind regards,

 

Chris Veck

Policy & FOI Adviser

 

Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA)

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London, SW1P 4DU

 

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