MPs’ business costs

Nigel Huddleston

IPSA paid £2,014,289 against 906 published rows for Nigel Huddleston between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Mid Worcestershire CC, then Droitwich and Evesham 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, 2015-16

98 claims, £127,799 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.	3	£96,095	75.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	54	£6,212	4.9%
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.	38	£19,401	15.2%
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	£5,161	4.0%
Starting up and winding up	The one-off costs of opening an office on election and of closing one on leaving. These fall in the years around a general election and are absent from the rest.	2	£930	0.7%

Every year in the register

Nigel Huddleston’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2015-16 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	Starting up and winding up	Total
2015-16	98	£96,095	£6,212	£19,401	£5,161	£930	£127,799
2016-17	107	£123,857	£7,349	£24,065	£5,732	—	£161,003
2017-18	63	£128,391	£7,595	£25,390	£5,067	—	£166,442
2018-19	76	£143,566	£6,465	£26,305	£5,398	—	£181,733
2019-20	89	£136,969	£9,220	£25,494	£4,913	—	£176,596
2020-21	85	£153,991	£12,884	£25,218	£4,448	—	£196,541
2021-22	68	£182,522	£10,087	£29,204	£5,522	—	£227,335
2022-23	92	£189,771	£9,074	£32,344	£4,141	—	£235,329
2023-24	100	£200,043	£10,713	£36,666	£4,469	—	£251,891
2024-25	85	£230,053	£8,896	£31,641	£4,344	—	£274,933
2025-26	43	—	£10,684	£4,003	—	—	£14,687

A year in which Nigel Huddleston 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, 2015-16

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£93,310
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£2,685
Staff Training Costs	1	£100

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Stationery Purchase	31	£2,888
Software Purchase	1	£1,062
Legal Expenses Insurance	1	£657
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	14	£608
Other	2	£396
Website - Hosting	1	£300

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	10	£16,589
Hotel London Area	4	£1,441
Council Tax	7	£909
Electricity	8	£296
Internet	9	£166

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£5,161

Starting up and winding up

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Comp HW Purch StartUp	1	£926
Office Cleaning StartUp	1	£4

Largest claims, 2015-16

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 2016	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2015-16 year	£93,310	£93,310
31 March 2016	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2015-16	£5,161	£5,161
19 May 2015	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRU	£2,685	£2,685
4 February 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
4 January 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
4 December 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
3 November 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
2 October 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
4 September 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
10 July 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
7 July 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
6 July 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
19 May 2015	Office Costs	Software Purchase	PRU	£1,062	£1,062
7 March 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£992	£992
11 June 2015	Start Up	Comp HW Purch StartUp	Computer equipment for office	£926	£926

Claims refused and money repaid, 2015-16

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £20 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 Nigel Huddleston 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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