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, 2019-20

89 claims, £176,596 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	£136,969	77.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	51	£9,220	5.2%
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.	25	£25,494	14.4%
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.	10	£4,913	2.8%

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, 2019-20

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£136,969
Training - staff	2	£0

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,133
Stationery & printing	24	£2,829
Software & applications	7	£1,884
Mobile telephone - contract & usage	11	£626
Equipment - purchase	5	£457
Advertising and contact cards	1	£180

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	11	£24,028
Utilities	4	£959
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	8	£307
Service charge & ground Rent	1	£160
Landline phone & internet - installation & equipment purchase	1	£40

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	4	£3,748
Rail	3	£908
Congestion charge & toll	1	£224
Parking	1	£26
Taxi	1	£9

Largest claims, 2019-20

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 2020	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2019-20 year	£136,969	£136,969
15 May 2019	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,133	£3,133
31 March 2020	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20	£2,463	£2,463
25 March 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,232	£2,232
26 February 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,232	£2,232
29 January 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,232	£2,232
26 December 2019	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,167	£2,167
29 November 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,167	£2,167
24 October 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,167	£2,167
25 September 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,167	£2,167
23 August 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,167	£2,167
25 July 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,167	£2,167
26 June 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,167	£2,167
24 May 2019	Accommodation	Rent	Direct rental payment	£2,167	£2,167
15 May 2019	Office Costs	Software & applications	PRU PART 1 2019-2020	£900	£900

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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