MPs’ business costs

Dr Andrew Murrison

IPSA paid £1,903,567 against 2,218 published rows for Dr Andrew Murrison between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for South West Wiltshire 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, 2014-15

167 claims, £88,752 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.	4	£70,445	79.4%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	150	£13,939	15.7%
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.	12	£2,537	2.9%
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.	1	£1,833	2.1%

Every year in the register

Dr Andrew Murrison’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	212	£57,611	£13,444	£1,671	£3,115	—	£75,842
2011-12	149	£61,040	£18,790	£7,957	£3,972	£395	£92,155
2012-13	173	£61,521	£18,329	£6,399	£2,550	—	£88,799
2013-14	187	£67,049	£17,399	£4,009	£1,637	—	£90,094
2014-15	167	£70,445	£13,939	£2,537	£1,833	—	£88,752
2015-16	219	£87,310	£16,720	£1,972	£4,274	£438	£110,714
2016-17	187	£106,837	£18,278	£3,834	£4,118	—	£133,067
2017-18	156	£125,609	£17,116	£4,759	£3,244	£380	£151,108
2018-19	84	£117,822	£18,051	£7,039	£3,674	—	£146,586
2019-20	122	£84,648	£19,294	£3,420	£2,674	£360	£110,396
2020-21	119	£112,906	£17,899	£4,397	£2,225	—	£137,428
2021-22	112	£128,341	£17,877	£3,229	£3,035	£360	£152,842
2022-23	102	£133,994	£19,870	£5,794	£3,427	—	£163,086
2023-24	80	£141,291	£23,082	£6,440	£2,991	—	£173,804
2024-25	108	£153,988	£9,409	£5,469	£3,083	—	£171,949
2025-26	41	—	£10,677	£6,269	—	—	£16,946

A year in which Dr Andrew Murrison 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, 2014-15

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£67,103
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£2,620
Practice Liability Insurance	1	£578
Staff Training Costs	1	£144

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	11	£7,449
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	28	£1,887
Stationery Purchase	20	£1,874
Const Office Electricity	12	£1,122
Other Equip Purchase	2	£619
Professional Services	26	£208

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Service Charges	2	£997
Council Tax	1	£822
Gas	4	£278
Water	1	£232
Electricity	3	£106
Ground Rent	1	£100

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£1,833

Largest claims, 2014-15

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 2015	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2014-15 year	£67,103	£67,103
8 April 2014	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRU subscription	£2,620	£2,620
31 March 2015	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2014-15	£1,833	£1,833
20 March 2015	Accommodation	Council Tax	Payment Card	£822	£822
13 January 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£708	£708
9 December 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£708	£708
13 November 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£708	£708
9 October 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£708	£708
10 September 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£708	£708
9 August 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£708	£708
9 July 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£708	£708
11 June 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£708	£708
8 May 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£708	£708
14 April 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£708	£708
27 March 2015	Accommodation	Service Charges	Accommodation	£700	£700

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 Dr Andrew Murrison 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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