MPs’ business costs

Andrew Rosindell

IPSA paid £3,025,957 against 1,510 published rows for Andrew Rosindell between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Romford BC. 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, 2014-15

141 claims, £170,654 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.	52	£144,152	84.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	88	£24,215	14.2%
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	£2,287	1.3%

Every year in the register

Andrew Rosindell’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	Travel	Total
2010-11	93	£99,565	£11,968	£827	£112,359
2011-12	110	£120,991	£24,393	£2,396	£147,780
2012-13	123	£144,497	£25,407	£2,050	£171,954
2013-14	131	£149,026	£24,311	£2,799	£176,137
2014-15	141	£144,152	£24,215	£2,287	£170,654
2015-16	106	£147,000	£25,680	£1,515	£174,195
2016-17	61	£147,631	£22,458	£995	£171,084
2017-18	43	£156,922	£17,987	£1,099	£176,008
2018-19	53	£157,387	£24,533	£1,583	£183,502
2019-20	66	£158,757	£28,893	£1,132	£188,782
2020-21	67	£203,796	£14,650	£586	£219,032
2021-22	63	£213,933	£31,685	£2,222	£247,841
2022-23	95	£235,184	£44,628	£590	£280,402
2023-24	151	£252,528	£34,226	£3,828	£290,582
2024-25	141	£268,153	£36,482	£1,166	£305,801
2025-26	66	—	£9,845	—	£9,845

A year in which Andrew Rosindell 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, 2014-15

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£143,035
Public Tr UND Volunteer	14	£898
Food & Drink Volunteer	31	£142
Public Tr RAIL Volunteer - RT	5	£68
Taxi Volunteer	1	£9

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	1	£7,000
Stationery Purchase	36	£5,788
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	16	£3,207
Contact Cards	3	£3,168
Professional Services: Direct	2	£1,825
Computer HW Purchase	1	£1,009

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£2,287

Largest claims, 2014-15

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 2015	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2014-15 year	£143,035	£143,035
1 June 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Office Costs May-July 14	£7,000	£7,000
6 January 2015	Office Costs	Contact Cards	Dec14-Feb15 Office Costs	£2,290	£2,290
31 March 2015	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2014-15	£2,287	£2,287
2 February 2015	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	Dec14-Feb15 Office Costs	£1,009	£1,009
8 April 2014	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	Cross reference fee	£1,000	£1,000
23 December 2014	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Nov-Dec Payment Card	£925	£925
21 January 2015	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	PRU	£825	£825
23 June 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Office Costs May-July 14	£786	£786
22 January 2015	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Jan 2015 Card	£751	£751
12 January 2015	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Jan 2015 Card	£751	£751
26 November 2014	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Nov-Dec Payment Card	£714	£714
12 March 2015	Office Costs	Contact Cards	Feb/Mar 2015 Office	£441	£441
23 March 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Feb/Mar 2015 Office	£438	£438
19 May 2014	Office Costs	Contact Cards	Office Costs May-July 14	£437	£437

Claims refused and money repaid, 2014-15

3 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £409 not paid and £7 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 Rosindell 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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