MPs’ business costs

Jessica Morden

IPSA paid £2,858,063 against 1,933 published rows for Jessica Morden between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Newport East 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

147 claims, £200,156 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.	4	£163,237	81.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	120	£19,033	9.5%
Accommodation	The 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.	17	£14,957	7.5%
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.	6	£2,930	1.5%

Every year in the register

Jessica Morden’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	87	£85,404	£12,724	£1,257	£7,484	—	£106,869
2011-12	106	£108,094	£19,042	£9,304	£6,569	£628	£143,637
2012-13	120	£102,994	£20,712	£10,371	£5,335	—	£139,412
2013-14	134	£122,691	£21,685	£9,330	£5,446	—	£159,151
2014-15	113	£128,956	£20,698	£9,864	£5,951	£619	£166,088
2015-16	88	£133,171	£19,731	£9,737	£4,824	£316	£167,778
2016-17	87	£131,103	£20,927	£10,041	£5,615	£339	£168,026
2017-18	81	£138,159	£16,674	£9,823	£3,811	£350	£168,816
2018-19	79	£148,056	£19,343	£10,798	£6,044	£374	£184,615
2019-20	119	£149,472	£20,067	£12,363	£5,351	—	£187,254
2020-21	147	£163,237	£19,033	£14,957	£2,930	—	£200,156
2021-22	160	£181,091	£17,060	£16,453	£7,021	—	£221,625
2022-23	193	£200,977	£21,004	£22,930	£10,369	—	£255,280
2023-24	189	£207,873	£23,609	£29,658	£9,460	—	£270,601
2024-25	146	£232,086	£27,419	£27,476	£9,460	—	£296,441
2025-26	84	—	£15,541	£6,772	—	—	£22,313

A year in which Jessica Morden 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	£160,512
Pooled staffing services	2	£2,700
Health & welfare - staff	1	£25

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	7	£5,652
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	12	£3,480
Service charge & ground Rent	4	£2,674
Equipment - purchase	15	£1,669
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,532
Equipment - hire	2	£1,163

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	11	£13,200
Service charge & ground Rent	2	£772
Council tax	1	£751
Utilities	3	£233

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	4	£2,552
Congestion charge & toll	1	£332
Rail	1	£46

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	£160,512	£160,512
31 March 2021	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2020-21	£2,496	£2,496
21 September 2020	Office Costs	Rent	Constituency office -50% payable	£2,081	£2,081
28 January 2021	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,800	£1,800
31 March 2021	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for 2020-21	£1,532	£1,532
2 March 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
2 February 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
6 January 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
1 December 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
1 November 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
4 October 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
1 September 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
1 August 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
1 July 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
3 June 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200

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 Jessica Morden 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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