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, 2025-26

75 claims, £13,750 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.55£10,78978.5%
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.20£2,96021.5%

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, 2025-26

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

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Stationery & printing13£1,762
Advertising and contact cards2£1,608
Software & applications2£1,280
Mobile telephone - equipment purchase1£1,199
Postage & couriers2£1,055
Newspapers, journals, magazines6£890

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Utilities19£1,652
Council tax1£1,308

Largest claims, 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
14 April 2025AccommodationCouncil taxCouncil tax for London flat£1,308£1,308
11 July 2025Office CostsMobile telephone - equipment purchasePurchase of Iphone for Parliamentary business as a replacement for stolen phone£1,199£1,199
2 October 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsWORTH VALLEY PUBLISHIN£804£804
11 March 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsWORTH VALLEY PUBLISHIN [200011725-6552] [200011782-515]£804£804
22 January 2026Office CostsSoftware & applicationsannual payment for Caseworker system£738£738
30 October 2025Office CostsPostage & couriersBanner November 2025£620£620
24 January 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsPayment for Caseworker software for parliamentary purposes [200011782-516]£542£542
30 October 2025Office CostsPostage & couriersBanner November 2025£435£435
23 February 2026Office CostsInsurance - contentsHISCOXME£312£312
19 February 2026AccommodationUtilitiesWater£300£300
10 March 2026Office CostsStationery & printingBanner March 2026£294£294
24 March 2025Office CostsInsurance - contentsHISCOX [200011725-5820] [200011782-512]£275£275
23 May 2025Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries£230£230
2 December 2025Office CostsStationery & printingXMA January 2026£207£207
29 August 2025Office CostsNewspapers, journals, magazinesMAGSUBCRIPTIONS COM£206£206

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

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