MPs’ business costs

Liz Jarvis

IPSA paid £129,985 against 116 published rows for Liz Jarvis between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Eastleigh BC. 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, 2024-25

58 claims, £108,699 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.	2	£89,380	82.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	24	£2,855	2.6%
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.	27	£13,215	12.2%
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.	5	£3,250	3.0%

Every year in the register

Liz Jarvis’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	Accommodation	Travel	Total
2024-25	58	£89,380	£2,855	£13,215	£3,250	£108,699
2025-26	58	—	£16,512	£4,774	—	£21,286

A year in which Liz Jarvis 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, 2024-25

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£84,480
Pooled staffing services	1	£4,900

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Software & applications	3	£1,654
Stationery & printing	19	£1,047
Advertising and contact cards	1	£118
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	1	£35

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	27	£13,215

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	4	£2,860
Hotel - London	1	£390

Largest claims, 2024-25

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 2025	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year	£84,480	£84,480
16 August 2024	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Support Team (Liberal Democrat)	£4,900	£4,900
31 March 2025	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-25	£2,146	£2,146
5 August 2024	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011792-11]	£1,007	£1,007
20 January 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£840	£840
25 November 2024	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£840	£840
13 March 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**] [200011725-3637]	£640	£640
23 February 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**] [200011725-614]	£630	£630
26 January 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£630	£630
13 January 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£630	£630
6 January 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£630	£630
8 December 2024	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£630	£630
2 December 2024	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£630	£630
14 October 2024	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£630	£630
7 October 2024	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£630	£630

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 Liz Jarvis 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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