MPs’ business costs

Andrew George

IPSA paid £1,197,394 against 2,867 published rows for Andrew George between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for St Ives 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

94 claims, £32,841 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
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	55	£12,824	39.0%
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.	39	£20,017	61.0%

Every year in the register

Andrew George’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2010-11 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	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	535	£97,351	£19,655	£11,342	£15,386	—	—	£143,734
2011-12	582	£114,886	£21,161	£14,192	£11,048	—	—	£161,287
2012-13	633	£126,677	£22,198	£15,390	£14,083	—	£315	£178,663
2013-14	455	£132,820	£22,813	£19,813	£14,381	—	—	£189,826
2014-15	273	£135,019	£20,157	£19,368	£22,231	—	—	£196,776
2015-16	113	£14,567	£3,767	£2,174	£847	£83,523	£3,898	£108,776
2024-25	182	£130,786	£26,401	£14,326	£13,976	—	—	£185,490
2025-26	94	—	£12,824	£20,017	—	—	—	£32,841

A year in which Andrew George 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 type	Claims	Paid
Postage & couriers	2	£3,189
Software & applications	2	£1,977
Stationery & printing	10	£1,494
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	10	£1,387
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	14	£1,380
Training - staff	6	£1,284

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	39	£20,017

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
7 April 2025	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	PAYPAL ROYALMAILGR	£2,818	£2,818
16 July 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
4 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£880	£880
20 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£880	£880
16 May 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£880	£880
10 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£796	£796
24 February 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£690	£690
15 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£690	£690
8 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£690	£690
22 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£685	£685
23 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£675	£675
18 December 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
11 December 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
25 November 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
6 November 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £155 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 Andrew George 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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