MPs’ business costs

Sir Jeremy Hunt

IPSA paid £2,672,576 against 2,029 published rows for Sir Jeremy Hunt between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for South West Surrey CC, then Godalming and Ash 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, 2020-21

49 claims, £214,566 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.	2	£186,138	86.8%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	43	£27,713	12.9%
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.	4	£715	0.3%

Every year in the register

Sir Jeremy Hunt’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	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	81	£80,896	£7,805	—	£733	—	£89,433
2011-12	303	£99,379	£12,587	£1,332	£2,140	—	£115,438
2012-13	271	£99,084	£14,647	£2,051	£2,307	£252	£118,341
2013-14	119	£141,547	£16,759	£2,392	£1,299	—	£161,998
2014-15	144	£144,925	£18,341	£940	£1,305	—	£165,510
2015-16	207	£144,662	£19,490	—	£2,174	£37	£166,364
2016-17	165	£139,276	£14,822	—	£2,137	—	£156,235
2017-18	79	£142,207	£14,948	—	£1,525	—	£158,679
2018-19	89	£151,730	£20,235	—	£3,052	—	£175,018
2019-20	139	£155,850	£21,496	—	£2,931	£9,450	£189,727
2020-21	49	£186,138	£27,713	—	£715	—	£214,566
2021-22	55	£203,066	£19,489	—	£1,199	—	£223,754
2022-23	99	£213,764	£18,242	—	£1,066	£1,440	£234,513
2023-24	82	£211,605	£24,647	—	£1,219	—	£237,472
2024-25	107	£227,595	£26,262	—	£1,519	—	£255,377
2025-26	40	—	£10,153	—	—	—	£10,153

A year in which Sir Jeremy Hunt 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	£186,103
Health & welfare - staff	1	£35

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Postage & couriers	1	£8,081
Rent	4	£6,525
Stationery & printing	13	£3,761
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,047
Advertising and contact cards	4	£2,520
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,636

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	2	£635
Rail	1	£74
Parking	1	£6

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	£186,103	£186,103
25 March 2021	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	Postage and fulfilment for Cancer improvement campaign for constituents	£8,081	£8,081
27 May 2020	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,047	£3,047
25 March 2021	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing of Cancer improvement letter & survey for constituents	£2,503	£2,503
28 September 2020	Office Costs	Rent	Office rent	£1,755	£1,755
31 March 2021	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for 2020-21	£1,636	£1,636
9 March 2021	Office Costs	Rent	Office rent Q4	£1,621	£1,621
20 November 2020	Office Costs	Rent	Office rent & contribution to associated bills Q2 2020	£1,604	£1,604
20 November 2020	Office Costs	Rent	Office rent & contribution to associated bills Q3 2020	£1,545	£1,545
9 June 2020	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Advert in Farnham Herald May 14 May 20 - community/covid19	£630	£630
7 May 2020	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Full page advert	£630	£630
30 April 2020	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Full page advert	£630	£630
23 April 2020	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Full page advert	£630	£630
31 March 2021	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2020-21	£540	£540
9 June 2020	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - installation & equipment purchase	Landline & internet package	£511	£511

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 Jeremy Hunt 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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