MPs’ business costs

Dr Andrew Murrison

IPSA paid £1,903,567 against 2,218 published rows for Dr Andrew Murrison between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for South West Wiltshire 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, 2010-11

212 claims, £75,842 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
Staffing	The salaries and employment costs of the people an MP employs to run their office and casework. IPSA pays these directly; they are not money an MP receives.	2	£57,611	76.0%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	202	£13,444	17.7%
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.	7	£1,671	2.2%
Travel	Journeys between the constituency and Westminster and within the constituency. Until 2018-19 IPSA published one travel category; from 2019-20 it publishes travel by the MP, by staff and by a dependant separately.	1	£3,115	4.1%

Every year in the register

Dr Andrew Murrison’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2010-11 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	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	212	£57,611	£13,444	£1,671	£3,115	—	£75,842
2011-12	149	£61,040	£18,790	£7,957	£3,972	£395	£92,155
2012-13	173	£61,521	£18,329	£6,399	£2,550	—	£88,799
2013-14	187	£67,049	£17,399	£4,009	£1,637	—	£90,094
2014-15	167	£70,445	£13,939	£2,537	£1,833	—	£88,752
2015-16	219	£87,310	£16,720	£1,972	£4,274	£438	£110,714
2016-17	187	£106,837	£18,278	£3,834	£4,118	—	£133,067
2017-18	156	£125,609	£17,116	£4,759	£3,244	£380	£151,108
2018-19	84	£117,822	£18,051	£7,039	£3,674	—	£146,586
2019-20	122	£84,648	£19,294	£3,420	£2,674	£360	£110,396
2020-21	119	£112,906	£17,899	£4,397	£2,225	—	£137,428
2021-22	112	£128,341	£17,877	£3,229	£3,035	£360	£152,842
2022-23	102	£133,994	£19,870	£5,794	£3,427	—	£163,086
2023-24	80	£141,291	£23,082	£6,440	£2,991	—	£173,804
2024-25	108	£153,988	£9,409	£5,469	£3,083	—	£171,949
2025-26	41	—	£10,677	£6,269	—	—	£16,946

A year in which Dr Andrew Murrison 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, 2010-11

The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£55,203
Pooled Staffing Services	1	£2,409

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	3	£5,956
Stationery Purchase	19	£2,883
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	15	£994
Other	99	£680
Telephone/Mobile Hire	13	£664
Const Office Electricity	1	£646

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council Tax	1	£669
Ground Rent	2	£657
Water	1	£187
Gas	3	£158

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£3,115

Largest claims, 2010-11

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
31 March 2011	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2010-11 year	£55,203	£55,203
23 July 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constituency Office	£3,475	£3,475
31 March 2011	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2010-11	£3,115	£3,115
30 July 2010	Staffing	Pooled Staffing Services	Parliamentary Resources Unit	£2,409	£2,409
28 January 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constituency Rent	£1,775	£1,775
18 October 2010	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	General Admin	£721	£721
4 March 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constituency Rent	£706	£706
18 July 2010	Accommodation	Council Tax	Accommodation	£669	£669
14 January 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Electricity	Constituency Office	£646	£646
18 March 2011	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	General Admin	£528	£528
28 November 2010	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	General Admin.	£512	£512
18 July 2010	Accommodation	Ground Rent	Accommodation	£377	£377
23 July 2010	Office Costs	Business Rates	Constituency Office	£337	£337
15 October 2010	Accommodation	Ground Rent	Accommodation	£280	£280
15 October 2010	Office Costs	Computer SW Purchase	General Admin	£239	£239

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 Dr Andrew Murrison 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.

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