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, 2012-13

101 claims, £128,781 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.	13	£111,573	86.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	87	£16,939	13.2%
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	£270	0.2%

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, 2012-13

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£96,435
Professional Services (Staff.)	11	£11,178
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£3,960

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	4	£7,479
Stationery Purchase	41	£2,917
Other	13	£2,585
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	14	£1,300
Computer HW Purchase	1	£902
Const Office Electricity	2	£467

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£270

Largest claims, 2012-13

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 2013	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2012-13 year	£96,435	£96,435
7 May 2012	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRU	£3,960	£3,960
3 August 2012	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constit office rent April-Sept	£3,579	£3,579
2 November 2012	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constit office rent Sept- De	£1,950	£1,950
4 January 2013	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constit office rent January	£1,625	£1,625
8 February 2013	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] January 2013	£1,242	£1,242
2 November 2012	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] October 2012	£1,241	£1,241
1 June 2012	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - May 2012	£1,211	£1,211
11 January 2013	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - Jobs Fair	£1,200	£1,200
1 March 2013	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] February 2013	£993	£993
10 August 2012	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] - July 2012	£993	£993
4 May 2012	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] April 2012	£946	£946
4 May 2012	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	Laptop for Wminster office	£902	£902
5 October 2012	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] -September 2012	£869	£869
4 January 2013	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] -December 2012	£869	£869

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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