MPs’ business costs

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

IPSA paid £2,397,195 against 1,918 published rows for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for The Cotswolds CC, then North Cotswolds 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

73 claims, £94,117 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.	5	£81,975	87.1%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	67	£9,858	10.5%
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	£2,284	2.4%

Every year in the register

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown’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	Total
2010-11	73	£81,975	£9,858	—	£2,284	£94,117
2011-12	167	£102,075	£11,261	—	£4,298	£117,633
2012-13	187	£118,230	£12,831	—	£4,365	£135,426
2013-14	133	£115,240	£9,823	—	£3,766	£128,829
2014-15	81	£118,256	£11,247	—	£3,403	£132,906
2015-16	87	£122,882	£11,391	—	£2,393	£136,667
2016-17	57	£130,584	£10,418	—	£3,138	£144,139
2017-18	57	£125,296	£10,987	—	£1,946	£138,229
2018-19	68	£137,017	£10,547	£10,773	£2,799	£161,136
2019-20	142	£110,985	£11,475	£10,392	£3,517	£136,369
2020-21	132	£158,440	£22,936	£4,026	£2,047	£187,448
2021-22	135	£170,197	£17,519	£4,628	£4,362	£196,705
2022-23	189	£172,804	£24,703	£4,173	£3,570	£205,249
2023-24	148	£179,246	£23,571	£3,683	£6,168	£212,668
2024-25	178	£216,501	£28,921	£3,582	£3,846	£252,851
2025-26	84	£657	£13,500	£2,666	—	£16,823

A year in which Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown 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

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£76,223
Pooled Staffing Services	1	£3,878
Professional Services (Staff.)	3	£1,875

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Website - Design/Production	1	£2,480
Stationery Purchase	19	£2,096
Install/Maint Office Equip.	3	£1,557
Payment Telephone/Mobile	11	£1,141
Const Office Other Fuel	3	£853
Advertising	2	£441

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£2,284

Largest claims, 2010-11

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 2011	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2010-11 year	£76,223	£76,223
10 May 2010	Staffing	Pooled Staffing Services	Pooled Staff Expenses	£3,878	£3,878
27 July 2010	Office Costs	Website - Design/Production	Managed Website	£2,480	£2,480
31 March 2011	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2010-11	£2,284	£2,284
11 March 2011	Office Costs	Install/Maint Office Equip.	Admin Expense	£1,438	£1,438
24 February 2011	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Outsourced Staff	£720	£720
22 November 2010	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Secretarial Support	£720	£720
22 November 2010	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Admin Expenses	£632	£632
15 July 2010	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Secretarial Services	£435	£435
6 January 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Other Fuel	Heating	£390	£390
3 August 2010	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Stationery	£384	£384
2 February 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Other Fuel	Constituency Office	£342	£342
15 July 2010	Office Costs	Advertising	Advertising Advice Surgeries	£311	£311
15 October 2010	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Office Admin Item	£210	£210
22 November 2010	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Admin Expenses	£166	£166

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 Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown 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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