MPs’ business costs

Andrew Rosindell

IPSA paid £3,025,957 against 1,510 published rows for Andrew Rosindell between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Romford 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, 2016-17

61 claims, £171,084 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	£147,631	86.3%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	58	£22,458	13.1%
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	£995	0.6%

Every year in the register

Andrew Rosindell’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	Travel	Total
2010-11	93	£99,565	£11,968	£827	£112,359
2011-12	110	£120,991	£24,393	£2,396	£147,780
2012-13	123	£144,497	£25,407	£2,050	£171,954
2013-14	131	£149,026	£24,311	£2,799	£176,137
2014-15	141	£144,152	£24,215	£2,287	£170,654
2015-16	106	£147,000	£25,680	£1,515	£174,195
2016-17	61	£147,631	£22,458	£995	£171,084
2017-18	43	£156,922	£17,987	£1,099	£176,008
2018-19	53	£157,387	£24,533	£1,583	£183,502
2019-20	66	£158,757	£28,893	£1,132	£188,782
2020-21	67	£203,796	£14,650	£586	£219,032
2021-22	63	£213,933	£31,685	£2,222	£247,841
2022-23	95	£235,184	£44,628	£590	£280,402
2023-24	151	£252,528	£34,226	£3,828	£290,582
2024-25	141	£268,153	£36,482	£1,166	£305,801
2025-26	66	—	£9,845	—	£9,845

A year in which Andrew Rosindell 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, 2016-17

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£147,686
Budget Repayment (Staffing)	1	£-54

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	1	£7,000
Stationery Purchase	24	£3,573
Professional Services: Direct	1	£2,661
Contact Cards	1	£2,247
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	15	£2,062
Postage Purchase	7	£1,168

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£995

Largest claims, 2016-17

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 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£147,686	£147,686
18 August 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Office Rent	£7,000	£7,000
21 April 2016	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	PRU	£2,661	£2,661
23 December 2016	Office Costs	Contact Cards	Contact Cards	£2,247	£2,247
31 March 2017	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2016-17	£995	£995
21 April 2016	Office Costs	Computer SW Purchase	PRU	£900	£900
26 April 2016	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	April/May 16 Office Expenses	£870	£870
2 June 2016	Office Costs	Parliamentary Accountancy	May/June 16 Office Costs	£840	£840
19 May 2016	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Consituency Headed Paper	£792	£792
19 May 2016	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Office Costs May 16	£792	£792
31 March 2017	Office Costs	Postage Purchase	Andrew Rosindell banner	£550	£550
31 March 2017	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Andrew Rosindell banner	£463	£463
25 August 2016	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Stationery	£437	£437
9 February 2017	Office Costs	Other Equip Purchase	Camera for constituency use	£366	£366
21 October 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Telephone	£350	£350

Claims refused and money repaid, 2016-17

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £275 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 Rosindell 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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