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, 2022-23

102 claims, £163,086 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	£133,994	82.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	80	£19,870	12.2%
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.	12	£5,794	3.6%
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.	8	£3,427	2.1%

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, 2022-23

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£130,895
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,099

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	12	£11,698
Postage & couriers	2	£2,725
Equipment - purchase	3	£1,034
Stationery & printing	10	£841
Cleaning services	13	£754
Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	2	£720

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Service charge & ground Rent	2	£3,935
Council tax	1	£1,056
Utilities	3	£593
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	6	£209

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	2	£2,079
Mileage - car	3	£1,006
Congestion charge & toll	1	£120
Hotel - UK Not London	1	£117
Other public transport	1	£105

Largest claims, 2022-23

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 2023	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2022-23 year	£130,895	£130,895
16 February 2023	Accommodation	Service charge & ground Rent	Service Charge [200008971-1]	£3,468	£3,468
28 April 2022	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,099	£3,099
3 March 2023	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	Cost of living leaflet March 2023 distribution	£2,723	£2,723
31 March 2023	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2022-23	£2,011	£2,011
25 March 2022	Accommodation	Council tax	City of Westminster	£1,056	£1,056
4 April 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,004	£1,004
2 March 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,004	£1,004
2 February 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,004	£1,004
5 January 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,004	£1,004
2 December 2022	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories	£968	£968
1 December 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£960	£960
1 November 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£960	£960
4 October 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£960	£960
1 September 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£960	£960

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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