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, 2011-12
109 claims, £160,904 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. | 12 | £112,681 | 70.0% |
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 68 | £19,800 | 12.3% |
| 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. | 18 | £15,242 | 9.5% |
| 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 | £8,351 | 5.2% |
| 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 | 3.0% |
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, 2011-12
The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.
Staffing
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Payroll | 1 | £112,582 |
| Public Tr RAIL Int/Volntr - RT | 6 | £77 |
| Food & Drink Intern/Volunteer | 5 | £21 |
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Stationery Purchase | 40 | £7,665 |
| Const Office Rent | 1 | £6,000 |
| Website - Design/Production | 2 | £2,700 |
| Business Rates | 1 | £678 |
| Photocopier Hire | 4 | £636 |
| Mobile Usage/Rental | 9 | £527 |
Accommodation
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Accommodation Rent | 11 | £13,910 |
| Council Tax | 2 | £792 |
| Interim Hotel London Area | 1 | £260 |
| Television Licence | 1 | £146 |
| Water | 1 | £70 |
| Electricity | 1 | £35 |
Travel
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Aggregated Travel Costs | 1 | £8,351 |
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 |
Largest claims, 2011-12
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 2012 | Staffing | Payroll | Total payroll costs for the 2011-12 year | £112,582 | £112,582 |
| 31 March 2012 | Travel | Aggregated Travel Costs | Aggregated figure for travel during 2011-12 | £8,351 | £8,351 |
| 17 October 2011 | Office Costs | Const Office Rent | Office Costs- Oct 2011 | £6,000 | £6,000 |
| 7 June 2011 | Office Costs | Website - Design/Production | May/June/July- Office Costs | £2,400 | £2,400 |
| 5 March 2012 | Accommodation | Accommodation Rent | — | £1,777 | £1,777 |
| 5 February 2012 | Accommodation | Accommodation Rent | — | £1,777 | £1,777 |
| 5 January 2012 | Accommodation | Accommodation Rent | — | £1,777 | £1,777 |
| 5 December 2011 | Accommodation | Accommodation Rent | — | £1,777 | £1,777 |
| 15 November 2011 | Accommodation | Accommodation Rent | — | £1,777 | £1,777 |
| 12 October 2011 | Accommodation | Accommodation Rent | Accomodation - Oct 2011 | £1,777 | £1,777 |
| 27 May 2011 | Office Costs | Stationery Purchase | June 2011- Barclay Card | £1,024 | £1,024 |
| 14 February 2012 | Start Up | Comp HW Purch StartUp | Start up - Feb 2012 | £1,000 | £1,000 |
| 27 February 2012 | Start Up | Comp HW Purch StartUp | Start Up - Computer | £833 | £833 |
| 8 July 2011 | Start Up | Comp HW Purch StartUp | Start Up Spring/Summer 2011 | £833 | £833 |
| 27 February 2012 | Office Costs | Stationery Purchase | Expense Card - March 2012 | £799 | £799 |
Claims refused and money repaid, 2011-12
1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £3 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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