MPs’ business costs

Jesse Norman

IPSA paid £1,901,713 against 1,335 published rows for Jesse Norman between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Hereford and South Herefordshire 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, 2010-11

85 claims, £96,566 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.	11	£78,631	81.4%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	74	£17,935	18.6%

Every year in the register

Jesse Norman’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	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	85	£78,631	£17,935	—	—	£96,566
2011-12	99	£106,514	£16,506	£312	—	£123,332
2012-13	101	£111,573	£16,939	£270	—	£128,781
2013-14	123	£119,344	£18,169	£452	—	£137,966
2014-15	91	£125,108	£17,759	£55	—	£142,922
2015-16	105	£118,291	£21,938	£32	—	£140,261
2016-17	106	£114,372	£19,196	£203	£90	£133,861
2017-18	79	£98,674	£23,659	£359	—	£122,693
2018-19	71	£95,907	£12,315	£401	—	£108,623
2019-20	103	£95,138	£19,642	£336	—	£115,116
2020-21	72	£97,302	£16,417	£615	—	£114,333
2021-22	73	£95,368	£23,660	£71	—	£119,099
2022-23	71	£103,356	£18,313	£292	—	£121,961
2023-24	50	£105,879	£18,808	£414	—	£125,101
2024-25	68	£117,095	£19,187	£283	—	£136,564
2025-26	38	£24,602	£9,935	—	—	£34,537

A year in which Jesse Norman 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, 2010-11

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£61,650
Professional Services (Staff.)	9	£13,104
Pooled Staffing Services	1	£3,878

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	3	£6,262
Stationery Purchase	39	£3,693
Office Furniture Purchase	4	£3,481
Computer HW Purchase	4	£1,483
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	8	£876
Business Rates	2	£446

Largest claims, 2010-11

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 2011	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2010-11 year	£61,650	£61,650
28 June 2010	Staffing	Pooled Staffing Services	PRU Subs	£3,878	£3,878
17 December 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Rent - 3 Penn House	£2,978	£2,978
14 July 2010	Office Costs	Office Furniture Purchase	Office furniture - 3 Penn Hse	£1,838	£1,838
3 December 2010	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - November 2010	£1,771	£1,771
15 October 2010	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - Sept 2010	£1,771	£1,771
30 July 2010	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - July 2010	£1,771	£1,771
11 March 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Rent - 3 Penn House	£1,659	£1,659
28 July 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	3 Penn House rent	£1,625	£1,625
11 October 2010	Office Costs	Office Furniture Purchase	Office furniture - 3 Penn Hse	£1,504	£1,504
11 March 2011	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - February 2011	£1,417	£1,417
4 February 2011	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - January 2011	£1,417	£1,417
12 November 2010	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - Oct 2010	£1,417	£1,417
17 September 2010	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - August 2010	£1,417	£1,417
25 June 2010	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - June 2010	£1,063	£1,063

Claims refused and money repaid, 2010-11

5 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £1,674 not paid and £0 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 Jesse Norman 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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