MPs’ business costs

Mary Glindon

IPSA paid £2,536,685 against 1,438 published rows for Mary Glindon between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for North Tyneside BC, then Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend BC. 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

63 claims, £102,299 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	£65,877	64.4%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	32	£12,015	11.7%
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.	29	£18,184	17.8%
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	£6,222	6.1%

Every year in the register

Mary Glindon’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	63	£65,877	£12,015	£18,184	£6,222	—	£102,299
2011-12	68	£88,916	£16,285	£20,492	£8,250	£70	£134,013
2012-13	99	£95,537	£16,226	£20,020	£9,585	—	£141,367
2013-14	95	£113,864	£17,423	£17,473	£10,881	—	£159,642
2014-15	81	£116,613	£14,645	£19,592	£9,913	—	£160,763
2015-16	74	£107,546	£14,601	£19,782	£11,839	—	£153,768
2016-17	160	£120,073	£20,644	£18,742	£11,749	—	£171,209
2017-18	145	£123,312	£9,880	£22,463	£10,105	—	£165,760
2018-19	78	£113,497	£16,613	£22,760	£11,142	—	£164,012
2019-20	130	£114,427	£14,319	£20,846	£9,382	—	£158,974
2020-21	78	£125,733	£16,331	£1,895	£337	—	£144,297
2021-22	73	£118,967	£21,776	£7,531	£11,676	—	£159,949
2022-23	87	£134,356	£15,258	£27,265	£15,568	—	£192,446
2023-24	72	£149,067	£18,743	£23,638	£18,632	—	£210,080
2024-25	78	£217,193	£24,550	£29,230	£24,909	—	£295,881
2025-26	57	—	£13,555	£8,671	—	—	£22,226

A year in which Mary Glindon 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	£65,877

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	9	£8,439
Office Furniture Purchase	3	£1,440
Telephone/Mobile Hire	4	£876
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	2	£562
Stationery Purchase	4	£395
Removal Costs	2	£71

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	11	£15,950
Interim Hotel London Area	6	£1,400
Council Tax	6	£599
Water	6	£235

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£6,222

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	£65,877	£65,877
31 March 2011	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2010-11	£6,222	£6,222
13 July 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	constituency rent	£1,666	£1,666
30 March 2011	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,450	£1,450
7 March 2011	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,450	£1,450
7 February 2011	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,450	£1,450
10 January 2011	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,450	£1,450
6 December 2010	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,450	£1,450
15 November 2010	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	monthly rent	£1,450	£1,450
13 October 2010	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	monthly rent	£1,450	£1,450
13 September 2010	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	monthly rent	£1,450	£1,450
13 August 2010	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	monthly rent	£1,450	£1,450
13 July 2010	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	monthly rent	£1,450	£1,450
10 June 2010	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	accommodation	£1,450	£1,450
23 July 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	rent salisbury house	£1,212	£1,212

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 Mary Glindon 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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