The Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA) reports work and travel expenses for current and former parliamentarians and their staff. Data covers the quarter from 1 July to 30 September 2025 and is published under the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017. The dataset was last updated on 19 March 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze spending patterns of parliamentarians based on reported work and travel expenses.
- Compare expenditure across different parliamentary offices or time periods based on the quarterly reporting structure.
- Monitor compliance and transparency in government operations based on legislated public reporting requirements.
Strengths
- Data is published under a specific legislative act (Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017), providing a legal basis for its collection.
- Covers a specific, recent quarterly period (1 July to 30 September 2025).
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the single reported quarter.
Provenance
- Source
- Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA)
- Collection Method
- Public reporting under section 12 of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017.
- Time Range
- 1 July 2025 to 30 September 2025
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-19 03:38:09.947865
- Geography
- Australia