MPs’ business costs

Ms Marie Rimmer

IPSA paid £1,974,346 against 1,176 published rows for Ms Marie Rimmer between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for St Helens South and Whiston 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, 2025-26

79 claims, £25,289 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	£2,000	7.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	46	£9,928	39.3%
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.	32	£13,361	52.8%

Every year in the register

Ms Marie Rimmer’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	Total
2015-16	107	£97,013	£19,451	£18,481	£11,681	£2,102	£148,727
2016-17	103	£116,714	£19,471	£20,592	£9,826	£3,898	£170,501
2017-18	87	£135,083	£22,648	£19,054	£6,214	—	£182,999
2018-19	78	£108,516	£20,496	£23,163	£9,980	—	£162,155
2019-20	83	£124,044	£22,848	£19,302	£11,919	—	£178,114
2020-21	53	£149,720	£31,912	£3,058	£6,220	—	£190,910
2021-22	111	£136,162	£25,246	£11,875	£10,209	—	£183,492
2022-23	135	£172,840	£24,995	£10,443	£15,334	—	£223,612
2023-24	176	£196,274	£27,234	£13,107	£14,249	—	£250,864
2024-25	164	£206,045	£27,580	£11,510	£12,548	—	£257,683
2025-26	79	£2,000	£9,928	£13,361	—	—	£25,289

A year in which Ms Marie Rimmer 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.

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Bought-in services	1	£2,000

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Software & applications	5	£2,864
Stationery & printing	14	£2,563
Utilities	11	£2,200
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	9	£1,161
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	3	£481
Insurance - contents	1	£357

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	32	£13,361

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
8 July 2025	Staffing	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£2,000	£2,000
23 January 2026	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
16 May 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£880	£880
10 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£796	£796
8 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
11 December 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
27 October 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
16 October 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
11 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
4 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
22 April 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
9 July 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ADOBE ADOBE	£656	£656
17 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£597	£597
26 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£455	£455
30 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£450	£450

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 Ms Marie Rimmer 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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