MPs’ business costs

Anna McMorrin

IPSA paid £1,926,499 against 1,151 published rows for Anna McMorrin between 2017-18 and 2025-26 as the member for Cardiff North 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, 2020-21

159 claims, £233,352 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.	9	£179,357	76.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	119	£23,460	10.1%
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.	19	£26,566	11.4%
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.	5	£3,347	1.4%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	7	£622	0.3%

Every year in the register

Anna McMorrin’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2017-18 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
2017-18	177	£96,271	£25,116	£20,670	£12,913	£479	£155,450
2018-19	173	£140,418	£24,875	£32,431	£14,922	£781	£213,427
2019-20	193	£148,081	£23,192	£26,870	£11,136	£130	£209,409
2020-21	159	£179,357	£23,460	£26,566	£3,347	£622	£233,352
2021-22	153	£178,071	£24,743	£22,645	£9,317	£336	£235,112
2022-23	83	£200,647	£20,499	£22,832	£8,453	£21	£252,453
2023-24	103	£232,925	£35,141	£26,647	£10,651	—	£305,363
2024-25	76	£239,994	£26,346	£26,963	£8,579	—	£301,882
2025-26	34	—	£16,634	£3,418	—	—	£20,052

A year in which Anna McMorrin 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, 2020-21

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£175,551
Pooled staffing services	2	£2,250
Training - staff	5	£1,546
Health & welfare - staff	1	£9

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	3	£7,500
Business rates	11	£6,946
Equipment - purchase	15	£2,285
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,383
Stationery & printing	21	£1,057
Cleaning services	8	£912

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	14	£25,456
Council tax	1	£942
Utilities	4	£168

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	1	£1,778
Rail	2	£1,003
Congestion charge & toll	1	£437
Taxi	1	£128

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removals	1	£324
Translation services (Welsh Language)	6	£298

Largest claims, 2020-21

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 2021	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year	£175,551	£175,551
23 March 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£2,500	£2,500
30 December 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£2,500	£2,500
27 September 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£2,500	£2,500
30 December 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,273	£2,273
11 December 2020	Accommodation	Rent	Advance payment of rent for first month of new London accomodation	£2,145	£2,145
29 November 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,145	£2,145
1 November 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,145	£2,145
29 September 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,145	£2,145
30 August 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,145	£2,145
1 August 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,145	£2,145
1 July 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,145	£2,145
3 June 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,145	£2,145
29 April 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,145	£2,145
14 September 2020	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,800	£1,800

Claims refused and money repaid, 2020-21

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £128 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 Anna McMorrin 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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