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Speaker's Office

This topic includes information published by the House of Commons, including responses to past FOI requests, relating to the Speaker's Office.

Item Description
The Speaker of the House of Commons travel, gifts, and official entertainment registers Registers of travel undertaken by the Speaker, gifts received, and expenditure from their official entertainment budget.

Responses to requests

Responded to during Speaker Hoyle’s term (4 November 2019 – current)

File ref Nature of request Response date
F23-250 Budget and costs for the Speaker's Office 31/05/2023
F23-229 Receptions held by the Speaker in Speaker's House over last 10 years 31/05/2023
F22-723 Speaker's Office press releases since 2017 13/12/2022
F22-649 Costs details of in-house & external legal advice to the Speaker 21/11/2022
F20-680 Correspondence between the Speaker and Ministers on recall of Parliament to discuss Brexit 19/01/2021
F21-301 Cost of legal advice provider to previous Speaker 21/07/2021
F20-610 Deputy Speaker expenses and expenditure claims 12/12/2020

Responded to during Speaker Bercow’s term (22 June 2009 – 4 November 2019)

File ref Nature of request Response date
F19-419 Rules for removal of Speaker and Deputy Speaker during mid term 18/09/2019
F19-367 Travel costs for officials in Speaker's Office 19/08/2019
F19-147 Speaker's role and rules 23/04/2019
F19-062 Amount spent by the Speaker's Office on Christmas events 27/02/2019
F19-061 Speaker Bercow's Whisky sold 06/02/2019
F19-022 Speaker's Spending 06/02/2019
F18-508 Deputy Speaker travel costs 09/01/2019
F18-413 Events and receptions held 14/11/2018
F18-360 Amount spent by the Speaker's Office for Christmas 2017 15/10/2018
F18-150 Details of the Speaker's travel 18/04/2018
F18-014 Speaker's office spending in 2017 05/02/2018
F17-566 Speaker's residence and travel costs 31/01/2018
F17-394 Spending on Christmas events 30/10/2017
F17-094 Expense claims of Speaker and Members 08/03/2017
F17-068 Spending charged to Speakers House 21/02/2017
F17-104 Speaker's correspondence 15/02/2017
F17-019 Spending by the Speaker's office in 2016 30/01/2017