MPs’ business costs

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

IPSA paid £2,397,195 against 1,918 published rows for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for The Cotswolds CC, then North Cotswolds 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, 2011-12

167 claims, £117,633 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.	79	£102,075	86.8%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	87	£11,261	9.6%
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.	1	£4,298	3.7%

Every year in the register

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown’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.

Year	Claims	Staffing	Office costs	Accommodation	Travel	Total
2010-11	73	£81,975	£9,858	—	£2,284	£94,117
2011-12	167	£102,075	£11,261	—	£4,298	£117,633
2012-13	187	£118,230	£12,831	—	£4,365	£135,426
2013-14	133	£115,240	£9,823	—	£3,766	£128,829
2014-15	81	£118,256	£11,247	—	£3,403	£132,906
2015-16	87	£122,882	£11,391	—	£2,393	£136,667
2016-17	57	£130,584	£10,418	—	£3,138	£144,139
2017-18	57	£125,296	£10,987	—	£1,946	£138,229
2018-19	68	£137,017	£10,547	£10,773	£2,799	£161,136
2019-20	142	£110,985	£11,475	£10,392	£3,517	£136,369
2020-21	132	£158,440	£22,936	£4,026	£2,047	£187,448
2021-22	135	£170,197	£17,519	£4,628	£4,362	£196,705
2022-23	189	£172,804	£24,703	£4,173	£3,570	£205,249
2023-24	148	£179,246	£23,571	£3,683	£6,168	£212,668
2024-25	178	£216,501	£28,921	£3,582	£3,846	£252,851
2025-26	84	£657	£13,500	£2,666	—	£16,823

A year in which Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown 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, 2011-12

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£94,620
Pooled Staffing Services	1	£3,960
Professional Services (Staff.)	4	£2,880
Public Tr UND Int/Volntr	16	£410
Food & Drink Intern/Volunteer	51	£186
Food & Drink Int/Volntr	6	£19

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Stationery Purchase	39	£3,184
Website - Hosting	1	£2,664
Payment Telephone/Mobile	9	£1,054
Security	3	£782
Legal Expenses Insurance	1	£636
Professional Services	1	£600

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£4,298

Largest claims, 2011-12

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 2012	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2011-12 year	£94,620	£94,620
31 March 2012	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2011-12	£4,298	£4,298
3 June 2011	Staffing	Pooled Staffing Services	PRU	£3,960	£3,960
4 May 2011	Office Costs	Website - Hosting	Office Expenses	£2,664	£2,664
4 January 2012	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Secretarial Services	£720	£720
11 October 2011	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Reception Services	£720	£720
11 July 2011	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Reception Services	£720	£720
11 July 2011	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Reception Services	£720	£720
5 March 2012	Office Costs	Security	Constituency Office - Security	£687	£687
11 October 2011	Office Costs	Legal Expenses Insurance	EPL Insurance	£636	£636
29 March 2012	Office Costs	Professional Services	Professional Services	£600	£600
20 July 2011	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Office Expenses	£407	£407
10 August 2011	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Admin Costs	£323	£323
7 October 2011	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	STATIONERY	£277	£277
5 December 2011	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Stationery	£265	£265

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 Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown 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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