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MPs’ business costs

Caroline Nokes

IPSA paid £2,437,483 against 2,045 published rows for Caroline Nokes between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Romsey and Southampton North 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, 2025-26

57 claims, £29,099 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.12£9,76833.6%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.43£17,26059.3%
AccommodationThe 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.1£1,7916.2%
MiscellaneousClaims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.1£2801.0%

Every year in the register

Caroline Nokes’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 costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2010-1169£51,219£1,593£17,000£3,934—£73,747
2011-12104£80,080£9,746£12,712£6,055—£108,594
2012-13100£85,480£9,253£16,911£7,620—£119,263
2013-14151£70,808£10,172£12,891£7,916—£101,786
2014-1592£99,684£8,049£14,343£9,341—£131,417
2015-16100£140,478£17,407£17,695£8,263—£183,843
2016-17104£113,793£17,920£21,769£7,752—£161,235
2017-18104£115,941£11,780£20,624£10,048—£158,393
2018-19132£107,713£14,819£19,017£10,435—£151,984
2019-20199£142,772£13,554£14,690£10,258—£181,274
2020-21215£149,225£26,636£17,021£4,094—£196,976
2021-22166£146,747£11,879£23,666£6,632—£188,923
2022-23127£160,042£11,854£23,340£7,650—£202,885
2023-24157£169,532£14,300£15,398£11,940—£211,170
2024-25168£187,823£19,715£19,290£10,065—£236,893
2025-2657£9,768£17,260£1,791—£280£29,099

A year in which Caroline Nokes 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, 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Bought-in services12£9,768

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Postage & couriers3£6,101
Advertising and contact cards14£5,974
Stationery & printing8£2,201
Mobile telephone - equipment purchase1£1,099
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage11£817
Website hosting and design2£461

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Council tax1£1,791

Miscellaneous

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Removals1£280

Largest claims, 2025-26

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
12 March 2026Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsMP leaflet update£3,527£3,527
6 March 2026Office CostsPostage & couriersPostage for Royal Mail Door 2 Door - constituent update£3,141£3,141
30 July 2025Office CostsPostage & couriersPostage for MP Summer update£2,841£2,841
4 April 2025AccommodationCouncil taxLONDON BOROUGH OF LAMB£1,791£1,791
13 August 2025Office CostsStationery & printingWWW.BULPITTPRINT.CO.UK£1,476£1,476
20 July 2025Office CostsMobile telephone - equipment purchaseiPhone 16£1,099£1,099
2 February 2026StaffingBought-in servicesComms & Media£900£900
5 January 2026StaffingBought-in servicesComms & Media£900£900
5 December 2025StaffingBought-in servicesComms & Media£900£900
5 November 2025StaffingBought-in servicesComms & Media£900£900
13 October 2025StaffingBought-in servicesComms & Media£900£900
8 September 2025StaffingBought-in servicesComms & Media£900£900
11 August 2025StaffingBought-in servicesComms & Media£900£900
7 July 2025StaffingBought-in servicesComms & Media£780£780
15 December 2025StaffingBought-in servicesAdministrative services£738£738

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 Caroline Nokes 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Caroline Nokes’s register of interests and votes · Sources