MPs’ business costs

Sir Lindsay Hoyle

IPSA paid £3,026,171 against 1,042 published rows for Sir Lindsay Hoyle between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Chorley 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, 2021-22

51 claims, £199,335 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	£161,619	81.1%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	37	£21,292	10.7%
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.	13	£16,424	8.2%

Every year in the register

Sir Lindsay Hoyle’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	45	£114,907	£6,785	£2,539	£6,120	—	£130,351
2011-12	67	£117,825	£12,850	£11,303	£12,261	—	£154,240
2012-13	62	£143,891	£11,682	£19,385	£14,775	—	£189,733
2013-14	89	£136,028	£23,406	£20,092	£16,819	—	£196,346
2014-15	79	£141,291	£14,401	£19,912	£21,720	—	£197,324
2015-16	72	£139,361	£12,639	£20,595	£20,353	—	£192,948
2016-17	71	£142,152	£21,865	£20,610	£21,069	—	£205,696
2017-18	69	£144,981	£16,720	£21,671	£15,808	—	£199,180
2018-19	76	£152,004	£21,619	£21,540	£19,811	—	£214,974
2019-20	106	£155,930	£23,521	£13,700	£21,431	£34,016	£248,598
2020-21	78	£146,497	£28,487	—	£7,649	—	£182,633
2021-22	51	£161,619	£21,292	—	£16,424	—	£199,335
2022-23	48	£168,327	£19,938	—	£16,240	—	£204,505
2023-24	49	£201,888	£23,984	—	£17,400	—	£243,273
2024-25	48	£212,000	£17,495	—	£8,613	—	£238,108
2025-26	32	—	£28,927	—	—	—	£28,927

A year in which Sir Lindsay Hoyle 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, 2021-22

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£161,619

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Bought-in services	12	£9,900
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	5	£4,350
Rent	4	£1,729
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,560
Equipment - purchase	1	£1,347
Cleaning services	1	£1,041

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	5	£12,149
Mileage - car	3	£3,516
Congestion charge & toll	2	£395
Railcard	2	£280
Parking	1	£84

Largest claims, 2021-22

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 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£161,619	£161,619
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£6,205	£6,205
31 March 2022	Staff Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£3,714	£3,714
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£2,342	£2,342
31 March 2022	Dependant Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£1,929	£1,929
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£1,560	£1,560
21 May 2021	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£1,473	£1,473
25 March 2022	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Office furniture	£1,347	£1,347
31 March 2022	Dependant Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£1,120	£1,120
18 November 2021	Office Costs	Cleaning services	Constituency Office Cleaning	£1,041	£1,041
21 July 2021	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£1,000	£1,000
7 December 2021	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£900	£900
21 September 2021	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£900	£900
26 July 2021	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£812	£812
15 November 2022	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£800	£800

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 Sir Lindsay Hoyle 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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