MPs’ business costs

Kevin Hollinrake

IPSA paid £1,999,333 against 1,747 published rows for Kevin Hollinrake between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Thirsk and Malton 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, 2015-16

187 claims, £171,480 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.	25	£113,645	66.3%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	113	£17,423	10.2%
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.	11	£23,448	13.7%
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	£13,587	7.9%
Starting up and winding up	The one-off costs of opening an office on election and of closing one on leaving. These fall in the years around a general election and are absent from the rest.	37	£3,378	2.0%

Every year in the register

Kevin Hollinrake’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2015-16 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	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2015-16	187	£113,645	£17,423	£23,448	£13,587	£3,378	—	£171,480
2016-17	298	£140,906	£18,361	£27,885	£17,876	—	—	£205,027
2017-18	159	£131,741	£19,655	£23,195	£11,930	—	—	£186,521
2018-19	225	£152,125	£18,569	£22,850	£12,259	—	—	£205,802
2019-20	178	£145,478	£20,348	£22,790	£16,546	—	—	£205,161
2020-21	138	£145,311	£16,545	£28,960	£6,284	—	£843	£197,943
2021-22	116	£153,199	£10,644	£23,290	£6,707	—	—	£193,841
2022-23	118	£166,093	£13,236	£7,491	£9,473	—	—	£196,293
2023-24	108	£141,936	£12,390	£4,213	£11,195	—	—	£169,733
2024-25	160	£196,592	£11,798	£29,017	£13,080	—	—	£250,486
2025-26	60	—	£17,045	—	—	—	—	£17,045

A year in which Kevin Hollinrake 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, 2015-16

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£99,674
Professional Services (Staff.)	13	£11,029
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£2,685
Staff Training Costs	2	£214
Food & Drink Volunteer	8	£42

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	10	£7,981
Stationery Purchase	41	£1,913
Venue Hire Surgery/Meeting	10	£1,063
Computer SW Purchase	1	£1,062
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	9	£938
Computer HW Purchase	2	£743

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	10	£23,068
Hotel London Area	1	£380

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£13,587

Starting up and winding up

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Comp HW Purch StartUp	13	£1,474
Training for MP Staff StartUp	1	£546
Tel/Mobile Purch StartUp	1	£264
Other Equipment Purch StartUp	9	£257
Printer Purchase StartUp	2	£207
Office Furn Purch StartUp	4	£202

Largest claims, 2015-16

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 2016	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2015-16 year	£99,674	£99,674
31 March 2016	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2015-16	£13,587	£13,587
22 March 2016	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	160410 Staffing	£3,960	£3,960
31 December 2015	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	160122 Staffing	£3,240	£3,240
12 June 2015	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRU	£2,685	£2,685
16 February 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,513	£2,513
19 January 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,513	£2,513
17 December 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,513	£2,513
20 November 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,513	£2,513
26 October 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Flat rent reclaim	£2,513	£2,513
26 September 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Flat rent reclaim	£2,513	£2,513
26 August 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Flat rent reclaim	£2,513	£2,513
26 July 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Flat rent reclaim	£2,513	£2,513
26 June 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Flat rent reclaim	£2,513	£2,513
23 October 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£2,397	£2,397

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 Kevin Hollinrake 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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