MPs’ business costs

Jonathan Reynolds

IPSA paid £3,059,572 against 1,786 published rows for Jonathan Reynolds between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Stalybridge and Hyde 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, 2016-17

71 claims, £179,888 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.	1	£128,052	71.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	47	£15,026	8.4%
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.	21	£25,518	14.2%
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	£11,072	6.2%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£220	0.1%

Every year in the register

Jonathan Reynolds’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	95	£85,664	£17,073	£17,566	£5,846	—	£126,150
2011-12	167	£102,633	£21,346	£16,916	£9,207	—	£150,102
2012-13	247	£133,014	£29,734	£22,046	£10,523	—	£195,316
2013-14	125	£146,186	£20,567	£23,032	£10,252	—	£200,037
2014-15	116	£137,537	£19,795	£21,398	£11,230	—	£189,961
2015-16	122	£133,644	£9,536	£23,915	£14,021	—	£181,116
2016-17	71	£128,052	£15,026	£25,518	£11,072	£220	£179,888
2017-18	91	£133,259	£20,107	£26,659	£11,610	—	£191,634
2018-19	116	£140,601	£23,388	£39,155	£12,738	£592	£216,474
2019-20	84	£152,805	£21,032	£41,709	£8,869	—	£224,415
2020-21	105	£152,437	£22,518	£31,417	£3,817	—	£210,188
2021-22	108	£167,046	£17,590	£39,700	£9,026	—	£233,363
2022-23	101	£178,364	£18,665	£40,467	£10,789	—	£248,285
2023-24	109	£181,059	£20,648	£43,861	£11,215	—	£256,783
2024-25	78	£173,394	£17,921	£45,109	£7,573	—	£243,997
2025-26	51	—	£8,608	£3,257	—	—	£11,864

A year in which Jonathan Reynolds 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, 2016-17

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£128,052

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	1	£6,477
Install/Maint Office Equip.	8	£1,801
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	16	£1,663
Const Office Repairs	3	£1,253
Furniture Purchase	2	£1,050
Computer SW Purchase	1	£1,000

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	13	£22,512
Council Tax	2	£1,363
Ground Rent	1	£948
Water	1	£492
Electricity	1	£124
Gas	2	£60

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£11,072

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removal Costs - Contingency	1	£220

Largest claims, 2016-17

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 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£128,052	£128,052
31 March 2017	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2016-17	£11,072	£11,072
30 June 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	July 2016 Payment Card	£6,477	£6,477
11 February 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
11 January 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
9 December 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
11 November 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
16 October 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
16 September 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
16 August 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
20 July 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
16 June 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
18 May 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
19 April 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
1 April 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,652	£1,652

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 Jonathan Reynolds 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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