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OTTAWA — How did MPs spend more than $141 million on their office budgets in the past year? Why did Canada 150 prompt some offices to obtain extra swag, and who were the biggest spenders overall?

To answer these questions, the National Post did a deep dive into House of Commons data, based on complete expense reports for the 2016-17 fiscal year.

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Full budgets include staff salaries, rentals for constituency offices, all kinds of administrative costs and money for hospitality, gifts and advertising, too — where some of the most interesting trends come to the surface. The averages below omit the partial expense reports of MPs who died or left office during the year.

Let’s start with the big picture. New Democrats spent the most money on their office budgets, at an average of $442,398 per Member of Parliament. Tories are the runners-up at $435,229 per MP, followed by the Bloc Québécois at $423,211 and our most frugal parliamentarians, the Liberals, who spend $405,152 on average.