In the financial year 2024-2025, you spent £176,745 of public money on staff as an MP, @Katie_Lam_MP. That's the taxpayer paying for your research team. The HMRC spreadsheet is three columns wide, free to download, and takes ten minutes to read. Nobody on your £176k staff opened it before you posted a figure that collapses the moment you include the column the @csjthinktank left out.Either they checked and you posted it anyway, or nobody bothered. Both are unacceptable for someone speaking from