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MPs’ business costs

Robbie Moore

IPSA paid £1,346,818 against 1,021 published rows for Robbie Moore between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Keighley CC, then Keighley and Ilkley 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 to 2025-26

1,021 claims, £1,346,818 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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.8£1,005,00974.6%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.731£157,07211.7%
AccommodationThe 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.197£116,2468.6%
TravelJourneys 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.85£68,4915.1%

Every year in the register

Robbie Moore’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelTotal
2019-2040£25,724£4,511£5,262£2,226£37,723
2020-21226£163,378£29,921£14,399£4,987£212,686
2021-22175£167,055£29,944£16,033£13,306£226,338
2022-23173£178,364£24,369£25,778£15,116£243,627
2023-24182£223,079£29,087£23,779£16,595£292,540
2024-25150£247,408£28,451£28,034£16,261£320,155
2025-2675—£10,789£2,960—£13,750

A year in which Robbie Moore 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 to 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll6£1,004,510
Working From Home Allowance2£500

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent40£55,928
Stationery & printing334£23,178
Pooled staffing services7£18,461
Equipment - purchase61£13,575
Advertising and contact cards15£8,182
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage61£6,335

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent36£82,882
Hotel - London44£23,091
Council tax15£4,892
Utilities63£4,644
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage36£431
Moving Fees1£234

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rail25£35,783
Hotel - London6£19,015
Mileage - car17£7,451
Parking14£1,855
Air travel4£1,069
Congestion charge & toll4£805

Largest claims, 2019-20 to 2025-26

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
31 March 2025StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year£247,096£247,096
31 March 2024StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2023-24 year£222,892£222,892
31 March 2023StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2022-23 year£178,364£178,364
31 March 2022StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year£167,055£167,055
31 March 2021StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year£163,378£163,378
31 March 2020StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2019-20 year£25,724£25,724
31 March 2025AccommodationRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£23,829£23,829
31 March 2025Office CostsRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£13,664£13,664
31 March 2022Office CostsRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22£11,144£11,144
31 March 2024Staff TravelHotel - LondonAggregated figure for travel during 2023-24£6,070£6,070
31 March 2025MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£5,283£5,283
31 March 2025Staff TravelHotel - LondonAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£5,178£5,178
31 March 2024MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2023-24£4,869£4,869
31 March 2023MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2022-23£4,152£4,152
31 March 2021MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2020-21£3,909£3,909

Claims refused and money repaid, 2019-20 to 2025-26

4 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £384 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 Robbie Moore 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Robbie Moore’s register of interests and votes · Sources