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, 2022-23

95 claims, £280,402 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.	3	£235,184	83.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	86	£44,628	15.9%
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.	6	£590	0.2%

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, 2022-23

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£232,044
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,088
Working From Home Allowance	1	£52

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	15	£22,585
Stationery & printing	19	£6,442
Equipment - purchase	6	£2,898
Advertising and contact cards	1	£2,749
Bought-in services	3	£2,400
Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	5	£2,351

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Other public transport	2	£315
Taxi	2	£218
Parking	2	£57

Largest claims, 2022-23

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 2023	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2022-23 year	£232,044	£232,044
14 June 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£9,000	£9,000
14 February 2023	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	AYSGARTH SERVICES	£3,314	£3,314
28 April 2022	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,088	£3,088
25 January 2022	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Andrew Rosindell MP Contact Cards	£2,749	£2,749
18 March 2022	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£2,000	£2,000
12 November 2022	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Office furniture	£1,500	£1,500
26 May 2022	Office Costs	Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	Mobile Phone Purchase and Apple Care	£1,279	£1,279
26 August 2022	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories	£1,103	£1,103
4 April 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,045	£1,045
2 March 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,045	£1,045
23 February 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,045	£1,045
23 February 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,045	£1,045
23 February 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,045	£1,045
23 February 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,045	£1,045

Claims refused and money repaid, 2022-23

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £9,000 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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