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, 2019-20

178 claims, £205,161 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.	18	£145,478	70.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	122	£20,348	9.9%
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.	23	£22,790	11.1%
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.	15	£16,546	8.1%

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, 2019-20

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£122,000
Bought-in services	17	£23,478

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	14	£7,110
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,133
Stationery & printing	35	£2,496
Equipment - purchase	26	£2,374
Software & applications	4	£1,882
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	23	£1,328

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	6	£16,087
Hotel - London	16	£6,703
MP Budget Overspend	1	£0

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	5	£12,872
Hotel - London	1	£1,912
Parking	4	£1,339
Mileage - car	1	£194
Railcard	1	£160
Subsistence	1	£41

Largest claims, 2019-20

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 2020	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2019-20 year	£122,000	£122,000
31 March 2020	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20	£8,428	£8,428
15 May 2019	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,133	£3,133
9 January 2020	Accommodation	Rent	[*] [] [] [] [], London, [*]	£2,925	£2,925
9 January 2020	Accommodation	Rent	[*] [] [] [] [], London, [*]	£2,925	£2,925
9 January 2020	Accommodation	Rent	[*] [] [] [] [], London, [*]	£2,925	£2,925
31 March 2020	Staff Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20	£2,677	£2,677
28 May 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Rent payment for[*] [] [**] as per lease	£2,464	£2,464
28 April 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Rent payment for [*] [] [**] as per lease	£2,464	£2,464
27 June 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Last rent payment on [***] - lease expires on 27 July 2019	£2,383	£2,383
2 March 2020	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,240	£2,240
1 February 2020	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,184	£2,184
31 October 2019	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,184	£2,184
2 October 2019	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,184	£2,184
2 September 2019	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,184	£2,184

Claims refused and money repaid, 2019-20

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £1,004 repaid. A refusal is not a finding of wrongdoing — most are claims outside the scheme’s rules, or submitted without the evidence IPSA requires — and it is shown because leaving it out would show only the money that went out.

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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