MPs’ business costs

Jon Trickett

IPSA paid £3,020,110 against 1,540 published rows for Jon Trickett between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Hemsworth CC, then Normanton and Hemsworth 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

97 claims, £120,010 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	£95,252	79.4%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	91	£17,143	14.3%
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.	3	£980	0.8%
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	£6,634	5.5%

Every year in the register

Jon Trickett’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	97	£95,252	£17,143	£980	£6,634	—	£120,010
2011-12	128	£114,861	£21,309	£15,600	£5,422	—	£157,191
2012-13	145	£118,553	£13,202	£23,400	£8,064	—	£163,219
2013-14	269	£125,872	£13,326	£20,100	£6,729	—	£166,027
2014-15	100	£135,590	£18,118	£20,600	£5,165	—	£179,473
2015-16	80	£142,781	£14,470	£20,201	£5,866	—	£183,318
2016-17	65	£121,187	£17,309	£20,610	£5,391	—	£164,498
2017-18	78	£146,201	£16,169	£22,514	£3,580	—	£188,465
2018-19	75	£141,636	£18,868	£22,100	£5,058	—	£187,662
2019-20	96	£146,984	£18,191	£22,442	£6,763	—	£194,380
2020-21	64	£191,050	£11,597	£23,043	£3,712	£19,400	£248,802
2021-22	47	£195,787	£14,921	£23,290	£2,628	—	£236,626
2022-23	58	£207,096	£11,069	£24,375	£5,424	—	£247,963
2023-24	101	£235,497	£18,778	£6,214	£4,746	—	£265,234
2024-25	104	£234,049	£33,169	£2,461	£4,175	—	£273,854
2025-26	33	£24,900	£13,234	£5,255	—	—	£43,389

A year in which Jon Trickett 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	£93,752
Professional Services (Staff.)	1	£1,500

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	11	£4,300
Printer Hire	4	£3,385
Const Office Other Fuel	2	£1,800
Photocopier Hire	3	£1,798
Business Rates	2	£1,449
Payment Telephone/Mobile	13	£1,316

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council Tax	1	£916
Television Licence	1	£59
Water	1	£5

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£6,634

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	£93,752	£93,752
31 March 2011	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2010-11	£6,634	£6,634
11 March 2011	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Bought in services - 11/03/11	£1,500	£1,500
7 May 2010	Office Costs	Business Rates	CORE to 12/07/10	£1,226	£1,226
4 February 2011	Office Costs	Photocopier Hire	RISO - Leasing 03/11	£1,151	£1,151
6 November 2010	Office Costs	Printer Hire	Claim to 23.11.10	£1,128	£1,128
21 September 2010	Office Costs	Printer Hire	CORE 21.9.2010	£1,128	£1,128
21 June 2010	Office Costs	Printer Hire	Constit General to 12.07.10	£1,080	£1,080
16 December 2010	Accommodation	Council Tax	London Accommodation- 15.3.201	£916	£916
1 March 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Other Fuel	Constit Rent 14.3.11	£900	£900
1 December 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Other Fuel	Constituent Rent 13.12.10	£900	£900
13 January 2011	Office Costs	Photocopier Hire	General Admin 13/01/2011	£504	£504
13 October 2010	Office Costs	Telephone/Mobile Purchase	Claim to 19.10.2010	£430	£430
1 March 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constit Rent 14.3.11	£400	£400
1 February 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constit rent to 08.02.11	£400	£400

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 Jon Trickett 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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