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, 2014-15

100 claims, £179,473 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	£135,590	75.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	84	£18,118	10.1%
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.	13	£20,600	11.5%
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.	1	£5,165	2.9%

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, 2014-15

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£134,390
Professional Services (Staff.)	1	£1,200

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	3	£5,250
Professional Services	3	£3,600
Stationery Purchase	28	£2,244
Other	11	£2,123
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	20	£1,664
Internet Access Installation	2	£921

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	12	£20,800
Budget Repayment (Accomm.)	1	£-200

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£5,165

Largest claims, 2014-15

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 2015	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2014-15 year	£134,390	£134,390
31 March 2015	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2014-15	£5,165	£5,165
17 February 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£2,700	£2,700
27 February 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
28 January 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
26 December 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
26 November 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
27 October 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
26 September 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
27 August 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
24 July 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
25 June 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
27 May 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
24 April 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
1 April 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733

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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