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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, 2021-22

133 claims, £130,638 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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£78,56660.1%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.102£16,57812.7%
AccommodationThe 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.15£31,17323.9%
TravelJourneys 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.14£4,3203.3%

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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2010-11118£66,688£14,000£5,136£9,599—£95,422
2011-12133£89,670£17,712£6,969£11,001—£125,351
2012-13160£98,865£16,719£24,583£10,331—£150,497
2013-14174£107,345£20,141£22,806£8,000—£158,291
2014-15140£113,077£18,478£9,564£8,286—£149,404
2015-16154£111,348£17,570£10,947£7,215—£147,080
2016-17129£103,384£16,401£11,225£4,313—£135,323
2017-18137£98,389£16,621£12,969£2,289—£130,268
2018-19123£106,557£17,360£13,261£4,497—£141,675
2019-20130£147,451£18,276£27,930£4,333£1,287£199,277
2020-21128£126,712£19,581£28,895£2,537—£177,724
2021-22133£78,566£16,578£31,173£4,320—£130,638
2022-23124£85,638£16,911£33,066£5,842—£141,456
2023-24126£94,425£23,510£32,786£3,925£1,133£155,780
2024-25122£113,416£17,606£35,970£4,883£1,660£173,535
2025-2660—£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, 2021-22

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£75,578
Pooled staffing services1£2,988

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent12£6,300
Mobile telephone - contract & usage30£4,365
Stationery & printing19£3,014
Utilities12£854
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage12£703
Equipment - purchase4£652

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent14£30,983
Council tax1£190

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Mileage - car6£2,902
Rail2£584
Hotel - European1£360
Air travel1£250
Taxi2£132
Subsistence1£77

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
31 March 2022StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year£75,578£75,578
23 April 2021StaffingPooled staffing servicesPolicy Research Unit (Conservative)£2,988£2,988
31 March 2022MP TravelMileage - carAggregated figure for travel during 2021-22£2,480£2,480
29 March 2022AccommodationRentApril Rent for London Home£2,383£2,383
25 February 2022AccommodationRentMarch Rent for London Home£2,383£2,383
28 January 2022AccommodationRentRent for London Home£2,383£2,383
24 December 2021AccommodationRentJanuary 2022 Rent for MP´s London Home£2,383£2,383
29 November 2021AccommodationRentRent on London Home£2,383£2,383
28 October 2021AccommodationRentNovember Rent for London Home£2,383£2,383
29 September 2021AccommodationRentRent for London Home£2,383£2,383
26 August 2021AccommodationRentSeptember Rent for London Home£2,383£2,383
30 July 2021AccommodationRentRent on London Home£2,383£2,383
28 June 2021AccommodationRentJuly Rent for London Home£2,383£2,383
27 May 2021AccommodationRentJune Rent for London Home£2,383£2,383
28 April 2021AccommodationRentMay Rent on London Home£2,383£2,383

Claims refused and money repaid, 2021-22

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £2,383 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Mark Pritchard’s register of interests and votes · Sources