MPs’ business costs

Sir Mark Tami

IPSA paid £3,047,389 against 1,568 published rows for Sir Mark Tami between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Alyn and Deeside 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, 2010-11

91 claims, £126,146 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	£95,333	75.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	79	£16,359	13.0%
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.	10	£7,097	5.6%
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.	1	£7,356	5.8%

Every year in the register

Sir Mark Tami’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	91	£95,333	£16,359	£7,097	£7,356	—	£126,146
2011-12	121	£102,991	£19,032	£21,305	£7,839	—	£151,168
2012-13	111	£121,698	£21,413	£23,311	£8,348	£150	£174,919
2013-14	118	£119,324	£19,552	£22,947	£8,513	—	£170,337
2014-15	96	£135,112	£13,763	£21,507	£8,591	—	£178,973
2015-16	92	£137,868	£15,354	£19,971	£7,570	—	£180,763
2016-17	117	£143,951	£22,942	£20,785	£7,943	—	£195,621
2017-18	110	£141,227	£19,179	£24,947	£8,705	—	£194,059
2018-19	102	£148,377	£18,187	£24,144	£9,381	—	£200,089
2019-20	128	£150,206	£17,914	£22,961	£7,390	—	£198,470
2020-21	90	£156,059	£22,352	£20,000	£7,556	—	£205,968
2021-22	85	£177,732	£20,978	£22,421	£5,495	—	£226,625
2022-23	116	£207,917	£16,976	£26,049	£9,556	—	£260,498
2023-24	103	£233,245	£24,127	£23,797	£9,333	—	£290,502
2024-25	60	£230,611	£17,516	£29,130	£9,593	—	£286,850
2025-26	28	—	£6,402	—	—	—	£6,402

A year in which Sir Mark Tami 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, 2010-11

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£95,333

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Contact Cards	2	£3,080
Const Office Rent	5	£3,000
Const Office Hire of Premises	4	£2,400
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	6	£1,589
Other	8	£1,430
Payment Telephone/Mobile	23	£1,187

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	4	£5,800
Water	1	£483
Service Charges	2	£247
Council Tax	1	£239
Gas	1	£182
Television Licence	1	£146

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£7,356

Largest claims, 2010-11

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 2011	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2010-11 year	£95,333	£95,333
31 March 2011	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2010-11	£7,356	£7,356
29 October 2010	Office Costs	Contact Cards	surgery cards	£2,050	£2,050
10 March 2011	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	rent for flat	£1,450	£1,450
10 January 2011	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	flat rent	£1,450	£1,450
10 January 2011	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	flat rent	£1,450	£1,450
18 December 2010	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	flat rent	£1,450	£1,450
30 July 2010	Office Costs	Contact Cards	office costs	£1,030	£1,030
31 March 2011	Office Costs	Other	toner/ folders	£1,012	£1,012
19 January 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	office rent	£600	£600
1 January 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	office rent	£600	£600
1 December 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	office rent etc	£600	£600
1 November 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	office rent etc	£600	£600
30 September 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	office costs	£600	£600
1 September 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Hire of Premises	office costs	£600	£600

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 Sir Mark Tami 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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