MPs’ business costs

Andrew Griffith

IPSA paid £1,282,936 against 1,407 published rows for Andrew Griffith between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Arundel and South Downs 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, 2021-22

252 claims, £221,618 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.	2	£189,362	85.4%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	230	£27,072	12.2%
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.	20	£5,184	2.3%

Every year in the register

Andrew Griffith’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 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
2019-20	65	£33,887	£3,080	—	£216	£37,183
2020-21	205	£164,837	£39,894	—	£2,757	£207,487
2021-22	252	£189,362	£27,072	—	£5,184	£221,618
2022-23	320	£205,661	£26,173	—	£5,666	£237,500
2023-24	231	£225,238	£35,518	—	£4,443	£265,199
2024-25	224	£246,048	£33,774	£6,604	£5,235	£291,661
2025-26	110	—	£16,371	£5,917	—	£22,288

A year in which Andrew Griffith 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, 2021-22

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£186,374
Pooled staffing services	1	£2,988

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	2	£8,984
Stationery & printing	49	£7,201
Equipment - purchase	39	£3,624
Software & applications	38	£2,222
Website hosting and design	17	£954
Utilities	11	£815

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	7	£3,050
Rail	6	£1,403
Congestion charge & toll	3	£645
Parking	2	£60
Taxi	1	£15
Other public transport	1	£11

Largest claims, 2021-22

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 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£186,374	£186,374
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£8,984	£8,984
23 April 2021	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£2,988	£2,988
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£1,133	£1,133
1 April 2021	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	HP415 Toner multipack - Constituency office	£801	£801
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£770	£770
31 March 2022	Staff Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£760	£760
15 June 2021	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing 1500 A5 Guides	£751	£751
9 June 2021	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing for South Downs guide	£751	£751
1 April 2021	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	HP415 Toner multipack - Westminster office	£686	£686
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£665	£665
8 September 2021	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Toner for printer Westminster Office	£633	£633
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Congestion charge & toll	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£615	£615
15 December 2021	Office Costs	Software & applications	Caseworker annual subscription 2022	£600	£600
25 August 2021	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing booklet x320 copies for APPG Dark Skies (non political)	£600	£600

Claims refused and money repaid, 2021-22

11 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £65 not paid and £2,959 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 Griffith 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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