MPs’ business costs

Kit Malthouse

IPSA paid £2,210,708 against 804 published rows for Kit Malthouse between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for North West Hampshire 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

108 claims, £207,834 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	£155,799	75.0%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	87	£24,014	11.6%
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.	14	£26,974	13.0%
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.	6	£1,047	0.5%

Every year in the register

Kit Malthouse’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	78	£113,113	£14,234	£13,192	£3,159	£2,896	—	£146,595
2016-17	96	£141,214	£14,595	£17,477	£3,112	£428	—	£176,826
2017-18	82	£150,288	£16,914	£18,000	£1,662	—	—	£186,864
2018-19	80	£150,657	£19,328	£19,936	£1,333	—	—	£191,254
2019-20	108	£155,799	£24,014	£26,974	£1,047	—	—	£207,834
2020-21	72	£192,906	£24,733	£24,000	£49	—	—	£241,688
2021-22	62	£184,364	£21,351	£26,611	—	—	—	£232,326
2022-23	75	£211,366	£11,944	£28,490	£227	—	—	£252,028
2023-24	66	£217,603	£10,981	£31,021	£1,468	—	—	£261,073
2024-25	56	£244,304	£13,591	£33,127	£1,992	—	—	£293,014
2025-26	29	£12,600	£2,404	£3,108	—	—	£3,095	£21,207

A year in which Kit Malthouse 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	£155,799

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Bought-in services	13	£9,572
Rent	12	£4,985
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,133
Software & applications	2	£1,500
Stationery & printing	26	£1,399
Advertising and contact cards	9	£966

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	12	£22,476
Council tax	2	£4,498

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	3	£827
Rail	3	£220

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	£155,799	£155,799
15 May 2019	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,133	£3,133
11 March 2020	Accommodation	Council tax	Council Tax for Constituency Home	£2,477	£2,477
18 March 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,164	£2,164
19 February 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,164	£2,164
20 January 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,164	£2,164
20 December 2019	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,164	£2,164
29 November 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,164	£2,164
24 October 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,164	£2,164
18 September 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,164	£2,164
21 August 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,164	£2,164
25 July 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,164	£2,164
5 April 2019	Accommodation	Council tax	Council Tax for constituency home 2019/20	£2,021	£2,021
19 June 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£1,500	£1,500
17 May 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£1,500	£1,500

Claims refused and money repaid, 2019-20

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £27 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 Kit Malthouse 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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