MPs’ business costs
Lewis Cocking
IPSA paid £191,459 against 125 published rows for Lewis Cocking between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Broxbourne 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, 2025-26
35 claims, £10,213 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 35 | £10,213 | 100.0% |
Every year in the register
Lewis Cocking’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2024-25 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 | Travel | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 90 | £158,607 | £19,596 | £3,043 | £181,246 |
| 2025-26 | 35 | — | £10,213 | — | £10,213 |
A year in which Lewis Cocking 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, 2025-26
The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Stationery & printing | 9 | £3,311 |
| Advertising and contact cards | 7 | £3,002 |
| Software & applications | 1 | £1,476 |
| Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | 4 | £867 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 11 | £859 |
| Postage & couriers | 1 | £435 |
Largest claims, 2025-26
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | CONSERVATIVE TOOLKIT | £1,911 | £1,911 |
| 23 June 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £1,476 | £1,476 |
| 13 November 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | CARTRIDGEPEOPLE.COM | £774 | £774 |
| 20 January 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | CARTRIDGEPEOPLE.COM | £685 | £685 |
| 18 July 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Banner August 2025 | £656 | £656 |
| 25 November 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Banner December 2025 | £649 | £649 |
| 12 February 2026 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £632 | £632 |
| 26 January 2026 | Office Costs | Postage & couriers | ROYAL MAIL ONLINE SHOP | £435 | £435 |
| 3 October 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | CONSERVATIVE TOOLKIT | £288 | £288 |
| 29 April 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | A-frame and poster to advertise the MP´s older persons´ fair. The A-Frame will be reusable for future events. | £251 | £251 |
| 16 March 2026 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | Constituency update leaflet x5000 | £218 | £218 |
| 26 August 2025 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Office furniture | £204 | £204 |
| 25 June 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Banner July 2025 | £204 | £204 |
| 14 July 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | Banners for MP to advertise presence at drop-in surgeries and other community events | £121 | £121 |
| 7 August 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Printing of Survey to be delivered to residents | £121 | £121 |
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 Lewis Cocking 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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