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MPs’ business costs

Jerome Mayhew

IPSA paid £880,305 against 463 published rows for Jerome Mayhew between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Broadland CC, then Broadland and Fakenham 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, 2024-25

101 claims, £256,194 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.3£225,13387.9%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.69£26,58610.4%
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.15£1,2740.5%
TravelJourneys 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.14£3,2011.2%

Every year in the register

Jerome Mayhew’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelTotal
2019-2032£15,898£1,104£97£771£17,869
2020-2162£101,137£10,953£3,221£1,180£116,492
2021-2279£129,947£13,688£1,286£1,532£146,453
2022-2382£138,373£9,625£1,050£2,565£151,612
2023-2483£155,805£13,410£784£3,499£173,498
2024-25101£225,133£26,586£1,274£3,201£256,194
2025-2624—£18,186——£18,186

A year in which Jerome Mayhew 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, 2024-25

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£224,839
Working From Home Allowance1£290
Volunteer - agreed arrangement costs1£5

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Stationery & printing25£7,995
Rent1£6,962
Pooled staffing services2£5,263
Advertising and contact cards6£2,230
Software & applications13£1,629
Equipment - purchase4£1,505

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Utilities6£838
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage9£437

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rail3£1,668
Mileage - car4£683
Congestion charge & toll1£548
Subsistence2£194
Parking2£68
Other public transport2£40

Largest claims, 2024-25

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
31 March 2025StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year£224,839£224,839
31 March 2025Office CostsRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£6,962£6,962
30 October 2024Office CostsStationery & printingBanner March 2025£4,250£4,250
22 April 2024Office CostsPooled staffing servicesPolicy Research Unit (Conservative)£3,548£3,548
17 September 2024Office CostsPooled staffing servicesPolicy Research Unit (Conservative)£1,715£1,715
31 March 2025Staff TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£1,145£1,145
24 February 2025Office CostsStationery & printingReimbursement for payment of printing costs from the Local Conservative Association printers for IPSA-approved, non-party political letters to targeted / relevant constituents£864£864
24 February 2025Office CostsStationery & printingReimbursement for payment of printing costs to the Local Association for printing IPSA-approved letters to relevant constituents£864£864
29 May 2024Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£720£720
9 May 2024Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsJUSTREGIONAL.CO.UK 000£672£672
23 April 2024Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsJUSTREGIONAL.CO.UK 000£672£672
31 March 2025MP TravelCongestion charge & tollAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£548£548
6 March 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOther office equipment£479£479
6 March 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOther office equipment£468£468
31 March 2025Staff TravelMileage - carAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£461£461

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £864 repaid. A refusal is not a finding of wrongdoing — most are claims outside the scheme’s rules, or submitted without the evidence IPSA requires — and it is shown because leaving it out would show only the money that went out.

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 Jerome Mayhew 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 · Jerome Mayhew’s register of interests and votes · Sources