MPs’ business costs
Sir Andrew Mitchell
IPSA paid £2,732,405 against 1,451 published rows for Sir Andrew Mitchell between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Sutton Coldfield BC. 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, 2019-20
100 claims, £170,109 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 | £130,726 | 76.8% |
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 65 | £29,159 | 17.1% |
| 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. | 25 | £4,713 | 2.8% |
| 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. | 9 | £5,510 | 3.2% |
Every year in the register
Sir Andrew Mitchell’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 | Miscellaneous | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | 97 | £89,353 | £10,026 | £10,451 | £3,400 | — | £113,229 |
| 2011-12 | 111 | £118,004 | £17,347 | £11,793 | £4,698 | — | £151,842 |
| 2012-13 | 122 | £112,051 | £18,445 | £7,349 | £5,791 | — | £143,636 |
| 2013-14 | 120 | £137,589 | £19,138 | £3,145 | £6,871 | — | £166,743 |
| 2014-15 | 78 | £138,095 | £14,288 | £2,902 | £8,068 | — | £163,354 |
| 2015-16 | 75 | £147,440 | £15,178 | £3,789 | £7,320 | — | £173,727 |
| 2016-17 | 91 | £145,579 | £20,754 | £3,855 | £7,472 | — | £177,660 |
| 2017-18 | 89 | £142,854 | £22,749 | £4,301 | £6,807 | — | £176,712 |
| 2018-19 | 84 | £143,405 | £21,272 | £4,168 | £7,545 | — | £176,390 |
| 2019-20 | 100 | £130,726 | £29,159 | £4,713 | £5,510 | — | £170,109 |
| 2020-21 | 101 | £145,477 | £25,430 | £2,673 | £3,593 | £3,414 | £180,587 |
| 2021-22 | 64 | £177,343 | £21,590 | £4,877 | £4,642 | — | £208,452 |
| 2022-23 | 55 | £215,743 | £9,925 | £4,138 | £5,398 | — | £235,204 |
| 2023-24 | 79 | £165,440 | £33,565 | £6,226 | £3,718 | — | £208,949 |
| 2024-25 | 119 | £230,540 | £23,138 | £5,594 | £8,742 | — | £268,015 |
| 2025-26 | 66 | — | £12,651 | £5,145 | — | — | £17,796 |
A year in which Sir Andrew Mitchell 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, 2019-20
The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.
Staffing
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Payroll | 1 | £130,726 |
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Rent | 7 | £17,773 |
| Pooled staffing services | 1 | £3,142 |
| Website hosting and design | 3 | £2,478 |
| Stationery & printing | 32 | £2,396 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 4 | £1,385 |
| Software & applications | 2 | £1,000 |
Accommodation
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Council tax | 2 | £2,113 |
| Service charge & ground Rent | 4 | £1,542 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 8 | £572 |
| Utilities | 11 | £486 |
Travel
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Rail | 3 | £3,161 |
| Mileage - car | 3 | £2,247 |
| Railcard | 1 | £70 |
| Taxi | 1 | £17 |
| Parking | 1 | £16 |
Largest claims, 2019-20
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 2020 | Staffing | Payroll | Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2019-20 year | £130,726 | £130,726 |
| 8 February 2020 | Office Costs | Rent | Renting office space and services for MP and caseworker and for regular constituency meetings. Rental agreement approved by IPSA. For period 8th February 2020 to 7th May 2020 | £3,175 | £3,175 |
| 30 January 2020 | Office Costs | Rent | Office and rental services for constituency office, including space for caseworker and MP and for regular constituency meetings. Address already registered with IPSA. | £3,175 | £3,175 |
| 10 October 2019 | Office Costs | Rent | Office and rental services for Sutton Coldfield office 8th May-7th August 2019 | £3,175 | £3,175 |
| 20 May 2019 | Office Costs | Rent | Constituency Office rent 08.02.19-07.05.19 | £3,175 | £3,175 |
| 15 May 2019 | Office Costs | Pooled staffing services | Policy Research Unit (Conservative) | £3,142 | £3,142 |
| 30 January 2020 | Office Costs | Rent | Office and rental services for constituency office- for caseworker and MP and for regular meetings with constituents. The agreement has been approved by IPSA. Claiming a proportion of total bill- notes below. | £3,106 | £3,106 |
| 31 March 2020 | Staff Travel | Rail | Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20 | £2,763 | £2,763 |
| 31 March 2020 | MP Travel | Mileage - car | Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20 | £2,206 | £2,206 |
| 13 February 2020 | Office Costs | Rent | Constituency office rent 8th Nov 2019- 7th Feb 2020, rental agreement approved by IPSA. Making a partial claim as covers election period- see note. | £1,967 | £1,967 |
| 1 April 2019 | Accommodation | Council tax | Council Tax 01.04.19-30.03.20 | £1,461 | £1,461 |
| 1 April 2019 | Office Costs | Website hosting and design | www.andrew-mitchell-mp.co.uk - design and management | £1,163 | £1,163 |
| 1 October 2019 | Office Costs | Website hosting and design | Relating to website www.andrew-mitchell-mp.co.uk: website design and management: Fully managed website with regular updates, sub-editorial services, articles and occasional stock image photography. 1 October - 31 December 2019 | £1,140 | £1,140 |
| 3 March 2020 | Accommodation | Council tax | Council Tax for Sutton Coldfield constituency accommodation. 12 months from 1 April 2020. Please note only claiming a proportion of the bill as per the attached information | £652 | £652 |
| 1 May 2019 | Accommodation | Service charge & ground Rent | Service Charge 01.015.19-31.10.19 | £617 | £617 |
Claims refused and money repaid, 2019-20
1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £3,114 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 Sir Andrew Mitchell 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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