MPs’ business costs
Sean Woodcock
IPSA paid £142,767 against 236 published rows for Sean Woodcock between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Banbury 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
113 claims, £23,745 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 | £2,000 | 8.4% |
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 94 | £18,643 | 78.5% |
| 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. | 18 | £3,102 | 13.1% |
Every year in the register
Sean Woodcock’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2024-25 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 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 123 | £84,451 | £15,573 | £13,063 | £5,935 | £119,022 |
| 2025-26 | 113 | £2,000 | £18,643 | £3,102 | — | £23,745 |
A year in which Sean Woodcock 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.
Staffing
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Bought-in services | 1 | £2,000 |
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Service charge & ground Rent | 26 | £4,631 |
| Advertising and contact cards | 5 | £3,400 |
| Software & applications | 3 | £2,309 |
| Stationery & printing | 19 | £2,202 |
| Utilities | 11 | £1,839 |
| Postage & couriers | 3 | £1,520 |
Accommodation
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Utilities | 18 | £3,102 |
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.
| Date | Category | Cost type | Description | Claimed | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 July 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | Sean Woodcock Annual Report Booklet - Please see attached. | £2,934 | £2,934 |
| 7 July 2025 | Staffing | Bought-in services | Comms & Media | £2,000 | £2,000 |
| 21 July 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | Annual fee for the use of Caseworker.mp 25/26 | £1,476 | £1,476 |
| 16 July 2025 | Office Costs | Postage & couriers | Royal Mail Door Drop of Annual Newsletter to 16337 village and rural addresses. | £1,273 | £1,273 |
| 28 January 2026 | Office Costs | Software & applications | 2026 Subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud Suite | £733 | £733 |
| 3 December 2025 | Accommodation | Utilities | Electricity | £710 | £710 |
| 16 February 2026 | Accommodation | Utilities | Electricity | £469 | £469 |
| 23 March 2026 | Office Costs | Business rates | Business Rates for [***] | £466 | £466 |
| 2 April 2025 | Office Costs | Business rates | Business Rates for FF04 for the 2025/26 Financial Year | £444 | £444 |
| 29 October 2025 | Accommodation | Utilities | Electricity | £362 | £362 |
| 21 January 2026 | Accommodation | Utilities | Electricity | £346 | £346 |
| 23 March 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA March 2026 | £332 | £332 |
| 19 February 2026 | Office Costs | Utilities | Electricity | £319 | £319 |
| 19 February 2026 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Service Charge 01/04/26 - 30/04/26 | £291 | £291 |
| 26 January 2026 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Service Charge 01/03/26 - 31/03/26 | £291 | £291 |
Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26
7 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £774 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 Sean Woodcock 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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