MPs’ business costs
Andrew Griffith
IPSA paid £1,282,936 against 1,407 published rows for Andrew Griffith between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Arundel and South Downs CC. These are the costs of running an office and employing staff under IPSA’s rules. They are not salary, and the largest part of them is wages IPSA pays to the member’s employees rather than money the member receives.
By category, 2025-26
110 claims, £22,288 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.
| Category | What it covers | Claims | Paid | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 86 | £16,371 | 73.5% |
| Accommodation | The cost of somewhere to stay for an MP whose constituency is far enough from Westminster that IPSA's rules allow it. An MP representing a London seat is not eligible on the same terms. | 24 | £5,917 | 26.5% |
Every year in the register
Andrew Griffith’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 and the last is 2025-26. Figures are not adjusted for inflation, so a rise between two distant years is partly a rise in prices. Select a year to read it on its own.
| Year | Claims | Staffing | Office costs | Accommodation | Travel | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 65 | £33,887 | £3,080 | — | £216 | £37,183 |
| 2020-21 | 205 | £164,837 | £39,894 | — | £2,757 | £207,487 |
| 2021-22 | 252 | £189,362 | £27,072 | — | £5,184 | £221,618 |
| 2022-23 | 320 | £205,661 | £26,173 | — | £5,666 | £237,500 |
| 2023-24 | 231 | £225,238 | £35,518 | — | £4,443 | £265,199 |
| 2024-25 | 224 | £246,048 | £33,774 | £6,604 | £5,235 | £291,661 |
| 2025-26 | 110 | — | £16,371 | £5,917 | — | £22,288 |
A year in which Andrew Griffith joined or left the House part-way through is a part year, and is not comparable with a full one.
What each category is made of, 2025-26
The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Software & applications | 29 | £5,920 |
| Stationery & printing | 7 | £4,064 |
| Advertising and contact cards | 16 | £3,312 |
| Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | 10 | £940 |
| Cleaning services | 8 | £678 |
| Utilities | 7 | £634 |
Accommodation
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Utilities | 15 | £3,511 |
| Council tax | 6 | £2,042 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 3 | £364 |
Largest claims, 2025-26
The 15 rows IPSA paid most against, with IPSA’s own description of each. Read the description before the amount: IPSA publishes most of a member’s staffing as one row for the whole year — “Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the ⟨year⟩ year” — so the largest row here is usually a year of wages for the member’s employees and not something bought.
| Date | Category | Cost type | Description | Claimed | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 March 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Cartridge People HP 220X Toners | £1,831 | £1,831 |
| 27 March 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | 10,000 sheets A4 cream letterhead thermographic paper and 1,000 A4 continuation paper | £1,742 | £1,742 |
| 16 December 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | Elected Technologies Caseworker annual subscription | £738 | £738 |
| 22 June 2025 | Accommodation | Utilities | Dual Fuel | £522 | £522 |
| 22 May 2025 | Accommodation | Utilities | Dual Fuel | £522 | £522 |
| 8 January 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | Elected Technologies Caseworker annual subscription [200011793-210] | £509 | £509 |
| 16 March 2026 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | Half page advert in the Hedgerow local magazine | £420 | £420 |
| 12 December 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | Hedgerow magazine half page advert Winter 2025 | £408 | £408 |
| 26 August 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | The Greenhouse - Hedgerow magazine 1/2 page contact advert Autumn 2025 | £408 | £408 |
| 17 June 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | The Greenhouse - Hedgerow magazine 1/2 page contact advert Summer 2025 | £408 | £408 |
| 15 April 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | Survey Monkey Annual Subscription | £384 | £384 |
| 7 October 2025 | Accommodation | Utilities | Electricity | £361 | £361 |
| 7 September 2025 | Accommodation | Utilities | Electricity | £351 | £351 |
| 10 October 2025 | Accommodation | Council tax | Council Tax October 2025 | £342 | £342 |
| 9 March 2026 | Accommodation | Council tax | Council Tax March 26 | £340 | £340 |
Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26
3 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £3,527 repaid. A refusal is not a finding of wrongdoing — most are claims outside the scheme’s rules, or submitted without the evidence IPSA requires — and it is shown because leaving it out would show only the money that went out.
What this page does not show
Whether any of it was justified. IPSA accepted these claims under its own rules and the register records what was paid, not whether it should have been. A large total is not a finding about the member.
Nor how Andrew Griffith compares with another member. After staffing the largest headings are accommodation and travel, and both are decided mostly by where a constituency is: a member several hundred miles from Westminster is eligible for costs a member with a London seat is not. Two members’ totals are two sets of rules as much as two sets of choices, and the length of service differs too.
It is also not pay. IPSA sets and publishes MPs’ salaries separately and they are not in this register; the staffing figure here is the salaries of the member’s employees.
All MPs’ business costs · Andrew Griffith’s register of interests and votes · Sources