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, 2023-24

100 claims, £251,891 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.	2	£200,043	79.4%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	48	£10,713	4.3%
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	£36,666	14.6%
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.	12	£4,469	1.8%

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, 2023-24

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£199,536
Working From Home Allowance	1	£507

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Equipment - purchase	2	£3,413
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,188
Software & applications	16	£1,889
Stationery & printing	16	£1,151
Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	2	£488
Mobile telephone - contract & usage	8	£342

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	12	£30,120
Council tax	2	£4,534
Utilities	12	£1,707
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	11	£279
Landline phone & internet - installation & equipment purchase	1	£25

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	3	£2,468
Rail	3	£1,484
Congestion charge & toll	1	£255
Hotel - London	1	£187
Subsistence	1	£32
Parking	2	£22

Largest claims, 2023-24

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 2024	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2023-24 year	£199,536	£199,536
18 April 2023	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,188	£3,188
29 November 2023	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories	£2,553	£2,553
28 March 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
29 February 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
30 January 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
28 December 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
28 November 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
31 October 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
28 September 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
29 August 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
1 August 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
29 June 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
30 May 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510
2 May 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,510	£2,510

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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