MPs’ business costs

Robert Jenrick

IPSA paid £2,294,387 against 1,095 published rows for Robert Jenrick between 2014-15 and 2025-26 as the member for Newark 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, 2022-23

84 claims, £245,857 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.	1	£194,454	79.1%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	65	£23,198	9.4%
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.	12	£24,000	9.8%
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.	6	£4,204	1.7%

Every year in the register

Robert Jenrick’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2014-15 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	Miscellaneous	Total
2014-15	118	£88,402	£15,008	—	£319	—	£103,729
2015-16	242	£128,352	£21,013	£10,566	£4,648	—	£164,578
2016-17	114	£137,946	£22,641	£17,905	£6,461	—	£184,953
2017-18	69	£132,440	£23,238	£26,014	£4,999	—	£186,692
2018-19	69	£139,169	£20,322	£26,367	£4,686	—	£190,543
2019-20	94	£148,994	£18,250	£24,474	£2,497	—	£194,214
2020-21	63	£167,973	£12,456	£24,000	£263	—	£204,692
2021-22	51	£183,967	£14,284	£24,000	£3,053	—	£225,304
2022-23	84	£194,454	£23,198	£24,000	£4,204	—	£245,857
2023-24	89	£206,577	£21,988	£24,000	£2,915	—	£255,479
2024-25	79	£246,791	£21,959	£25,801	£2,805	£34,679	£332,034
2025-26	23	—	£6,310	—	—	—	£6,310

A year in which Robert Jenrick 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, 2022-23

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£194,454

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	14	£10,833
Equipment - purchase	4	£4,244
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,091
Stationery & printing	24	£1,928
Advertising and contact cards	3	£904
Software & applications	1	£600

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	12	£24,000

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	4	£3,759
Rail	2	£445

Largest claims, 2022-23

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 2023	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2022-23 year	£194,454	£194,454
31 March 2023	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2022-23	£3,327	£3,327
28 April 2022	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,091	£3,091
19 October 2022	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Office furniture	£2,995	£2,995
16 March 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
16 February 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
17 January 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
15 December 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
15 November 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
18 October 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
15 September 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
16 August 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
19 July 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
16 June 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
17 May 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000

Claims refused and money repaid, 2022-23

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £147 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 Robert Jenrick 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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