Clive Palmer has warned he will hold the government's legislative agenda to ransom until he gets extra staff, despite having more allocated than the larger Greens Party.

Mr Palmer said his party was a special case, after Fairfax Media alerted him to the generosity of his staffing allocation - the most of any party of its size in the past decade.

Clive Palmer wants extra staff from Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

''It's not really my problem, it's Tony's problem,'' Mr Palmer said, adding that the Palmer United Party would hold up Parliament for days at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars if he did not have enough staff to understand the legislation.

''We want a team of people with the right classifications so we can recruit the experts necessary … to help us understand.''