A significant element of that involves providing the right level of staff support for Members to ensure that they can effectively run their local and parliamentary offices, represent their constituents and undertake their parliamentary duties. 1.1.2 In doing so, the SPCB recognises that each individual Member is the direct employer of his or her staff and that the arrangements for the Staff Cost Provision (SCP) must therefore be sufficiently flexible to enable individual Members to operate in the way which best suits their circumstances (subject, of course, to continuing to pay the living...