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, 2018-19

102 claims, £200,089 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	£148,377	74.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	80	£18,187	9.1%
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.	20	£24,144	12.1%
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	£9,381	4.7%

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, 2018-19

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£148,377

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Professional Services: Direct	1	£4,800
Const Office Rent	3	£3,600
Training MP Staff	3	£1,473
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	20	£1,448
Stationery Purchase	4	£1,178
Const Office Gas	3	£1,141

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	13	£22,533
Council Tax	1	£691
Water	1	£506
Gas	3	£305
Service Charges	1	£96
Electricity	1	£12

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£9,381

Largest claims, 2018-19

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 2019	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2018-19 year	£148,377	£148,377
31 March 2019	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2018-19	£9,381	£9,381
1 April 2018	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	PRS	£4,800	£4,800
6 March 2019	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accomodation	£1,733	£1,733
6 March 2019	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accomodation	£1,733	£1,733
10 January 2019	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accom	£1,733	£1,733
10 January 2019	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accom	£1,733	£1,733
29 November 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accom	£1,733	£1,733
29 November 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accom	£1,733	£1,733
13 September 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accom	£1,733	£1,733
24 July 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accom	£1,733	£1,733
24 July 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accom	£1,733	£1,733
24 July 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accom	£1,733	£1,733
24 May 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accomadation	£1,733	£1,733
24 May 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accomadation	£1,733	£1,733

Claims refused and money repaid, 2018-19

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £40 not paid and £0 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 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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