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, 2017-18

57 claims, £138,229 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.	4	£125,296	90.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	52	£10,987	7.9%
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.	1	£1,946	1.4%

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, 2017-18

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£124,997
Professional Services (Staff.)	2	£264
Health and Welfare Costs	1	£35

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Stationery Purchase	17	£4,663
Professional Services: Direct	1	£2,680
Website - Design/Production	3	£2,000
Newspapers/Journals	12	£618
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	7	£520
Venue Hire Surgery/Meeting	6	£248

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£1,946

Largest claims, 2017-18

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 2018	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2017-18 year	£124,997	£124,997
27 April 2017	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	PRU	£2,680	£2,680
31 March 2018	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2017-18	£1,946	£1,946
7 September 2017	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Banner	£1,783	£1,783
5 March 2018	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Banner	£1,092	£1,092
1 March 2018	Office Costs	Website - Design/Production	Website - Design/Production-Ge	£1,000	£1,000
16 January 2018	Office Costs	Website - Design/Production	Website - Design/Production	£500	£500
6 October 2017	Office Costs	Website - Design/Production	Website	£500	£500
13 June 2017	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Banner	£363	£363
5 December 2017	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Professional Services (Staff)	£228	£228
12 July 2017	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Banner	£194	£194
29 January 2018	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Stationery	£180	£180
16 January 2018	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Stationery Purchase	£143	£143
21 August 2017	Office Costs	Contact Cards	Business Cards	£143	£143
22 June 2017	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Stationery Purchase	£137	£137

Claims refused and money repaid, 2017-18

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £60 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 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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