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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, 2024-25

122 claims, £173,535 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.3£113,41665.4%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.101£17,60610.1%
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.6£35,97020.7%
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.10£4,8832.8%
MiscellaneousClaims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.2£1,6601.0%

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, 2024-25

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£108,153
Pooled staffing services2£5,263

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent1£8,293
Newspapers, journals, magazines6£1,923
Mobile telephone - contract & usage14£1,792
Stationery & printing20£1,469
Utilities22£1,176
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage11£731

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent6£35,970

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Mileage - car4£2,857
Vehicle hire cost1£1,002
Air travel1£647
Rail1£228
Hotel - UK Not London1£70
Congestion charge & toll1£59

Miscellaneous

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Removals1£1,228
Cleaning services1£432

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
31 March 2025StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year£108,153£108,153
24 April 2024AccommodationRent6 months Rent for tenancy of new London Home£21,000£21,000
31 March 2025Office CostsRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£8,293£8,293
3 April 2024AccommodationRentRent for London Home£3,878£3,878
22 April 2024StaffingPooled staffing servicesPolicy Research Unit (Conservative)£3,548£3,548
26 December 2024AccommodationRentRent for London Home£3,500£3,500
27 November 2024AccommodationRentRent for London Home£3,500£3,500
25 October 2024AccommodationRentRent for London Home£3,500£3,500
31 March 2025MP TravelMileage - carAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£1,958£1,958
17 September 2024StaffingPooled staffing servicesPolicy Research Unit (Conservative)£1,715£1,715
2 May 2024MiscellaneousRemovalsRemoval Costs to new poperty [***][***][***]£1,228£1,228
31 March 2025MP TravelVehicle hire costAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£1,002£1,002
3 June 2024Office CostsNewspapers, journals, magazinesSP SHOP.PARLIAMENT.UK£770£770
31 March 2025MP TravelAir travelAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£647£647
27 January 2025AccommodationRentPart Rent for London Home£592£592

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