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, 2024-25

141 claims, £305,801 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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.1£268,15387.7%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.135£36,48211.9%
TravelJourneys 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.5£1,1660.4%

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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsTravelTotal
2010-1193£99,565£11,968£827£112,359
2011-12110£120,991£24,393£2,396£147,780
2012-13123£144,497£25,407£2,050£171,954
2013-14131£149,026£24,311£2,799£176,137
2014-15141£144,152£24,215£2,287£170,654
2015-16106£147,000£25,680£1,515£174,195
2016-1761£147,631£22,458£995£171,084
2017-1843£156,922£17,987£1,099£176,008
2018-1953£157,387£24,533£1,583£183,502
2019-2066£158,757£28,893£1,132£188,782
2020-2167£203,796£14,650£586£219,032
2021-2263£213,933£31,685£2,222£247,841
2022-2395£235,184£44,628£590£280,402
2023-24151£252,528£34,226£3,828£290,582
2024-25141£268,153£36,482£1,166£305,801
2025-2666£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, 2024-25

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£268,153

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent1£12,540
Advertising and contact cards7£7,729
Pooled staffing services2£5,263
Equipment - purchase21£2,766
Stationery & printing23£1,970
Software & applications28£1,937

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Other public transport2£726
Rail2£243
Air travel1£196

Largest claims, 2024-25

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
31 March 2025StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year£268,153£268,153
31 March 2025Office CostsRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£12,540£12,540
22 April 2024Office CostsPooled staffing servicesPolicy Research Unit (Conservative)£3,548£3,548
10 December 2024Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsAYSGARTH SERVICES£2,500£2,500
31 May 2024Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsSQ AYSGARTH SERVICES£1,965£1,965
17 September 2024Office CostsPooled staffing servicesPolicy Research Unit (Conservative)£1,715£1,715
20 October 2024Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOffice furniture£1,656£1,656
10 December 2024Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsAYSGARTH SERVICES£1,560£1,560
15 April 2024Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsAYSGARTH SERVICES£785£785
28 February 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£720£720
31 March 2025Staff TravelOther public transportAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£690£690
17 May 2024Office CostsStationery & printingVIKING£612£612
15 April 2024Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsAYSGARTH SERVICES£464£464
20 February 2025Office CostsTraining - staffPARLI-TRAINING£426£426
20 February 2025Office CostsTraining - staffPARLI-TRAINING£426£426

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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