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, 2022-23

83 claims, £252,453 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.	4	£200,647	79.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	42	£20,499	8.1%
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.	20	£22,832	9.0%
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.	16	£8,453	3.3%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£21	0.0%

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, 2022-23

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£197,497
Pooled staffing services	3	£3,150

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	2	£8,897
Business rates	1	£6,420
Stationery & printing	3	£1,070
Software & applications	17	£916
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	1	£782
Utilities	5	£712

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	12	£20,800
Council tax	1	£1,056
Utilities	7	£976

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	4	£3,361
Mileage - car	2	£2,139
Air travel	1	£1,275
Hotel - European	1	£805
Congestion charge & toll	1	£235
Hotel - London	1	£190

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Translation services (Welsh Language)	1	£21

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	£197,497	£197,497
10 January 2023	Office Costs	Business rates	Cardiff Council Business Rates	£6,420	£6,420
31 March 2023	Office Costs	Rent	Backdated rent 22/23 accrual due to late lease renewal	£6,397	£6,397
23 June 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£2,500	£2,500
31 March 2023	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2022-23	£2,052	£2,052
31 March 2023	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2022-23	£2,025	£2,025
28 March 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
28 February 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
31 January 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
29 December 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
29 November 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
1 November 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
29 September 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
30 August 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
28 July 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733

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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