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MPs’ business costs

Tony Vaughan

IPSA paid £251,187 against 258 published rows for Tony Vaughan between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Folkestone and Hythe 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

258 claims, £251,187 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.7£184,27373.4%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.195£33,95013.5%
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.42£24,2109.6%
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.13£8,4753.4%
MiscellaneousClaims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.1£2800.1%

Every year in the register

Tony Vaughan’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 costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2024-25169£180,273£21,338£20,515£8,475£280£230,880
2025-2689£4,000£12,612£3,695——£20,307

A year in which Tony Vaughan 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£175,556
Bought-in services2£4,000
Pooled staffing services1£3,000
Training - staff3£1,717

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Stationery & printing30£5,872
Rent4£5,557
Utilities36£4,897
Equipment - purchase45£4,641
Software & applications11£3,785
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries18£1,653

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent9£17,702
Utilities15£2,973
Council tax2£1,976
Hotel - London3£943
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage8£347
Landline phone & internet - installation & equipment purchase5£268

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rail6£7,799
Hotel - UK Not London1£428
Mileage - car2£175
Parking4£72

Miscellaneous

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Removals1£280

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£175,556£175,556
31 March 2025Staff TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£4,702£4,702
25 March 2025Office CostsRent—£3,125£3,125
29 November 2024Office CostsRent[***] 25/12/2024 to 24/03/2025£3,091£3,091
25 February 2025StaffingPooled staffing servicesParliamentary Research Service (Labour)£3,000£3,000
31 March 2025MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£2,860£2,860
20 March 2025AccommodationRent—£2,383£2,383
20 February 2025AccommodationRent—£2,383£2,383
21 January 2025AccommodationRent—£2,383£2,383
19 December 2024AccommodationRent—£2,383£2,383
19 November 2024AccommodationRent—£2,383£2,383
22 October 2024AccommodationRent—£2,383£2,383
19 September 2024AccommodationRent—£2,383£2,383
20 August 2024AccommodationRent[***] - Faster payment - first month rent due 19 Aug£2,383£2,383
22 October 2024Office CostsRent[***] - First Quarter´s Rent£2,226£2,226

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

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £185 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 Tony Vaughan 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 · Tony Vaughan’s register of interests and votes · Sources