MPs’ business costs
Mr Gagan Mohindra
IPSA paid £905,775 against 391 published rows for Mr Gagan Mohindra between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for South West Hertfordshire 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
15 claims, £3,991 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 15 | £3,991 | 100.0% |
Every year in the register
Mr Gagan Mohindra’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 24 | £12,578 | £998 | £175 | £13,752 |
| 2020-21 | 50 | £138,672 | £18,283 | £233 | £157,187 |
| 2021-22 | 76 | £147,590 | £16,330 | £2,099 | £166,018 |
| 2022-23 | 39 | £161,945 | £4,865 | £6,801 | £173,611 |
| 2023-24 | 115 | £166,099 | £6,705 | £10,797 | £183,602 |
| 2024-25 | 72 | £189,490 | £9,726 | £8,397 | £207,614 |
| 2025-26 | 15 | — | £3,991 | — | £3,991 |
A year in which Mr Gagan Mohindra 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.
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Software & applications | 3 | £2,009 |
| Stationery & printing | 9 | £1,792 |
| Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | 3 | £190 |
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.
| Date | Category | Cost type | Description | Claimed | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 April 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | Annual Subscription for Caseworker software from Elected Technologies | £738 | £738 |
| 26 April 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ADOBE SYSTEMS SOFTWARE | £656 | £656 |
| 16 May 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £615 | £615 |
| 5 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Storage Boxes | £320 | £320 |
| 4 March 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Banner March 2026 | £294 | £294 |
| 20 August 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Business Cards | £277 | £277 |
| 14 November 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Multi Colour Printer Ink | £229 | £229 |
| 21 October 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | METRO COMMERCIAL PRINT | £208 | £208 |
| 4 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA March 2026 | £207 | £207 |
| 14 November 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Black Printer Ink | £89 | £89 |
| 2 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Pens | £88 | £88 |
| 15 May 2025 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £80 | £80 |
| 5 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Storage Boxes | £80 | £80 |
| 10 June 2025 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £56 | £56 |
| 20 February 2026 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £54 | £54 |
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 Mr Gagan Mohindra 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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