MPs’ business costs
Mark Pritchard
IPSA paid £2,226,698 against 2,091 published rows for Mark Pritchard between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for The Wrekin 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
130 claims, £199,277 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. | 3 | £147,451 | 74.0% |
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 92 | £18,276 | 9.2% |
| 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. | 19 | £27,930 | 14.0% |
| 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. | 15 | £4,333 | 2.2% |
| Miscellaneous | Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19. | 1 | £1,287 | 0.6% |
Every year in the register
Mark Pritchard’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 | 118 | £66,688 | £14,000 | £5,136 | £9,599 | — | £95,422 |
| 2011-12 | 133 | £89,670 | £17,712 | £6,969 | £11,001 | — | £125,351 |
| 2012-13 | 160 | £98,865 | £16,719 | £24,583 | £10,331 | — | £150,497 |
| 2013-14 | 174 | £107,345 | £20,141 | £22,806 | £8,000 | — | £158,291 |
| 2014-15 | 140 | £113,077 | £18,478 | £9,564 | £8,286 | — | £149,404 |
| 2015-16 | 154 | £111,348 | £17,570 | £10,947 | £7,215 | — | £147,080 |
| 2016-17 | 129 | £103,384 | £16,401 | £11,225 | £4,313 | — | £135,323 |
| 2017-18 | 137 | £98,389 | £16,621 | £12,969 | £2,289 | — | £130,268 |
| 2018-19 | 123 | £106,557 | £17,360 | £13,261 | £4,497 | — | £141,675 |
| 2019-20 | 130 | £147,451 | £18,276 | £27,930 | £4,333 | £1,287 | £199,277 |
| 2020-21 | 128 | £126,712 | £19,581 | £28,895 | £2,537 | — | £177,724 |
| 2021-22 | 133 | £78,566 | £16,578 | £31,173 | £4,320 | — | £130,638 |
| 2022-23 | 124 | £85,638 | £16,911 | £33,066 | £5,842 | — | £141,456 |
| 2023-24 | 126 | £94,425 | £23,510 | £32,786 | £3,925 | £1,133 | £155,780 |
| 2024-25 | 122 | £113,416 | £17,606 | £35,970 | £4,883 | £1,660 | £173,535 |
| 2025-26 | 60 | — | £11,857 | £1,828 | — | £1,292 | £14,977 |
A year in which Mark Pritchard 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 | £144,155 |
| Pooled staffing services | 1 | £3,133 |
| Health & welfare - staff | 1 | £163 |
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Rent | 12 | £5,775 |
| Stationery & printing | 30 | £4,524 |
| Mobile telephone - contract & usage | 11 | £3,645 |
| Website hosting and design | 3 | £1,635 |
| Utilities | 8 | £1,127 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 8 | £591 |
Accommodation
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Rent | 13 | £25,587 |
| Council tax | 1 | £1,721 |
| Utilities | 3 | £561 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 2 | £60 |
Travel
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Mileage - car | 4 | £2,175 |
| Rail | 2 | £597 |
| Hotel - European | 1 | £545 |
| Air travel | 1 | £478 |
| Other public transport | 2 | £298 |
| Taxi | 2 | £165 |
Miscellaneous
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Moving Fees | 1 | £1,287 |
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 | £144,155 | £144,155 |
| 15 May 2019 | Staffing | Pooled staffing services | Policy Research Unit (Conservative) | £3,133 | £3,133 |
| 2 March 2020 | Accommodation | Rent | London Flat rent - Landlord does not issue monthly invoice - IPSA has lease details on file | £2,383 | £2,383 |
| 1 February 2020 | Accommodation | Rent | London Home rent - Landlord does not issue monthly invoice - IPSA has lease details on file | £2,383 | £2,383 |
| 1 January 2020 | Accommodation | Rent | Second Home Rent - Landlord does not issue monthly invoice - IPSA have lease details on file | £2,383 | £2,383 |
| 3 December 2019 | Accommodation | Rent | IPSA have lease on file. | £2,383 | £2,383 |
| 1 October 2019 | Accommodation | Rent | October rent | £2,383 | £2,383 |
| 1 September 2019 | Accommodation | Rent | IPSA have the contract on file. Landlord does not provide monthly invoices. | £2,383 | £2,383 |
| 2 August 2019 | Accommodation | Rent | IPSA why do you keep returning his monthly rent submissions when you have the details on file? You have all of the monthly rent details. The landlord does not provide monthly invoices. | £2,383 | £2,383 |
| 1 July 2019 | Accommodation | Rent | IPSA yo have the lease on file with the rent details. Landlord does not issue monthly invoices nor receipts July rent | £2,383 | £2,383 |
| 5 June 2019 | Accommodation | Rent | Rent | £2,383 | £2,383 |
| 1 November 2019 | Accommodation | Rent | November rent. Landlord does not provide monthly statements. IPSA have the details on file. | £2,383 | £2,383 |
| 31 March 2020 | MP Travel | Mileage - car | Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20 | £1,825 | £1,825 |
| 14 May 2019 | Accommodation | Council tax | Accommodation Council Tax | £1,721 | £1,721 |
| 4 June 2019 | Miscellaneous | Moving Fees | Agency fees | £1,287 | £1,287 |
Claims refused and money repaid, 2019-20
2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £607 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 Mark Pritchard 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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