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MPs’ business costs

Terry Jermy

IPSA paid £217,704 against 204 published rows for Terry Jermy between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for South West Norfolk 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, 2024-25 to 2025-26

204 claims, £217,704 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.5£152,18969.9%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.148£43,50020.0%
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.32£15,8607.3%
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.19£6,1562.8%

Every year in the register

Terry Jermy’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelTotal
2024-25149£152,189£28,865£13,942£6,156£201,152
2025-2655—£14,635£1,918—£16,553

A year in which Terry Jermy 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, 2024-25 to 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£147,082
Pooled staffing services1£3,000
Training - staff1£1,500
Software & applications1£600
Volunteer - agreed arrangement costs1£7

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs9£11,160
Rent5£6,618
Software & applications10£5,746
Advertising and contact cards9£2,973
Business rates2£2,578
Insurance - buildings7£2,352

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent6£7,506
Hotel - London22£6,683
Council tax3£1,480
Utilities1£190

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rail4£2,080
Mileage - car6£2,039
Hotel - London2£1,663
Subsistence2£249
Other public transport3£108
Parking2£16

Largest claims, 2024-25 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£147,082£147,082
18 December 2024Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsInvoice from builder for constituency office reconfiguration£5,919£5,919
3 October 2024StaffingPooled staffing servicesParliamentary Research Service (Labour)£3,000£3,000
26 November 2024Office CostsRentTemporary Office Space while awaiting permanent office£2,531£2,531
27 January 2025Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsConstituency Office Redecoration following building work£2,400£2,400
25 March 2025Office CostsRent—£2,188£2,188
18 October 2024Office CostsRentRUDLINGS SOLICITORS LL£2,188£2,188
23 June 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsHousehold leaflet delivery for MP tour of villages Street Surgeries£2,010£2,010
18 March 2025AccommodationRent—£1,998£1,998
18 February 2025AccommodationRent—£1,998£1,998
16 January 2025AccommodationRent—£1,998£1,998
12 December 2024AccommodationRent[***]£1,998£1,998
6 January 2025Office CostsRent[***]£1,732£1,732
14 November 2025Office CostsBusiness ratesBusiness Rates for constituency office£1,588£1,588
10 October 2024StaffingTraining - staffWhole team Caseworker training - one day£1,500£1,500

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25 to 2025-26

3 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £1,853 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 Terry Jermy 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 · Terry Jermy’s register of interests and votes · Sources