MPs’ business costs

Dan Jarvis

IPSA paid £3,213,946 against 1,671 published rows for Dan Jarvis between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Barnsley Central BC, then Barnsley North 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, 2010-11 to 2025-26

1,671 claims, £3,213,946 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.	71	£2,324,733	72.3%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	1,172	£332,802	10.4%
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.	293	£376,564	11.7%
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.	123	£174,688	5.4%
Starting up and winding up	The one-off costs of opening an office on election and of closing one on leaving. These fall in the years around a general election and are absent from the rest.	10	£4,830	0.2%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	2	£329	0.0%

Every year in the register

Dan Jarvis’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	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	27	£215	—	£691	£707	—	—	£1,613
2011-12	109	£112,681	£19,800	£15,242	£8,351	£4,830	—	£160,904
2012-13	123	£135,957	£19,942	£23,437	£9,260	—	—	£188,596
2013-14	122	£133,790	£22,646	£21,724	£8,309	—	—	£186,470
2014-15	99	£137,631	£22,015	£18,773	£11,278	—	—	£189,697
2015-16	103	£139,587	£23,400	£27,167	£16,273	—	—	£206,427
2016-17	114	£141,400	£22,356	£23,771	£18,475	—	£329	£206,331
2017-18	68	£146,363	£22,739	£29,199	£5,908	—	—	£204,210
2018-19	78	£152,883	£22,586	£30,040	£10,182	—	—	£215,691
2019-20	112	£154,451	£19,206	£27,474	£11,045	—	—	£212,176
2020-21	171	£176,572	£26,648	£29,864	£3,101	—	—	£236,186
2021-22	92	£202,090	£26,090	£30,208	£10,110	—	—	£268,497
2022-23	136	£213,394	£24,434	£30,078	£20,827	—	—	£288,734
2023-24	125	£234,375	£28,110	£32,300	£18,689	—	—	£313,474
2024-25	130	£243,344	£22,184	£33,247	£22,172	—	—	£320,947
2025-26	62	—	£10,644	£3,349	—	—	—	£13,993

A year in which Dan Jarvis 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, 2010-11 to 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	14	£2,322,253
Staff Training Costs	5	£1,558
Hotel NOT London Area Voluntee	5	£599
Public Tr RAIL Int/Volntr - RT	18	£241
Public Tr RAIL Volunteer - SG	5	£179
Public Tr RAIL Volunteer - RT	6	£93

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	14	£96,681
Rent	37	£75,480
Stationery Purchase	206	£34,002
Equipment - purchase	78	£16,671
Equipment - hire	58	£14,540
IT/Other Equipment Hire	63	£11,000

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	49	£173,635
Accommodation Rent	104	£172,254
Council tax	7	£8,733
Council Tax	14	£8,248
Electricity	23	£4,398
Utilities	73	£4,086

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	9	£88,744
Rail	30	£47,353
Hotel - London	6	£11,102
Hotel - UK Not London	7	£7,757
Parking	16	£7,300
Mileage - car	28	£5,966

Starting up and winding up

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Comp HW Purch StartUp	3	£2,666
Office Furn Purch StartUp	2	£837
Photocopier Purch StartUp	1	£600
Comp SW Purch StartUp	2	£419
Install Office Equip. StartUp	2	£309

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removal Costs - Contingency	1	£180
Contingency	1	£149

Largest claims, 2010-11 to 2025-26

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 2025	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year	£243,344	£243,344
31 March 2024	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2023-24 year	£234,375	£234,375
31 March 2023	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2022-23 year	£213,394	£213,394
31 March 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£202,090	£202,090
31 March 2021	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year	£176,572	£176,572
31 March 2020	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2019-20 year	£154,451	£154,451
31 March 2019	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2018-19 year	£152,644	£152,644
31 March 2018	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2017-18 year	£145,338	£145,338
31 March 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£140,727	£140,727
31 March 2016	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2015-16 year	£139,587	£139,587
31 March 2015	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2014-15 year	£137,400	£137,400
31 March 2013	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2012-13 year	£135,957	£135,957
31 March 2014	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2013-14 year	£133,790	£133,790
31 March 2012	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2011-12 year	£112,582	£112,582
31 March 2025	Accommodation	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25	£31,203	£31,203

Claims refused and money repaid, 2010-11 to 2025-26

5 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £939 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 Dan Jarvis 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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