only since 1969 that MPs have had access to funds to employ staff and run an office
The current system of recruiting and employing MPs’ staff is not one you would design if you were starting from scratch, but before considering an overhaul, it is useful to ask how we got here. In this blogpost Rebecca McKee, who is currently running a project on MPs’ staff,examines the evolution of MPs’ staffing arrangements, providing some context to the current arrangements so we can understand how best to reform them.
Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has called for a Speaker’s Conference to consider a major overhaul of workplace practices in the House of Commons. Under our current system, it is MPs – not the Commons – who recruit and employ their staff, within a framework of regulations set out by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA).While the devolved legislatures and many other countries have similar arrangements, New Zealand stands out as an example where MPs engage staff employed…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
May 26, 2022 @ 06:12:12
Having been a senior public servant in Australia, who was required to interact with Ministerial advisors, I found that a lot of their work was party-political and should not have been funded by taxpayers.
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May 26, 2022 @ 19:13:18
But having no staff at all until 1969 may be surprising. Don’t know history of MP staffing here
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