MPs’ business costs

Grahame Morris

IPSA paid £3,011,209 against 2,416 published rows for Grahame Morris between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Easington 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, 2014-15

159 claims, £175,779 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.	17	£136,391	77.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	100	£16,605	9.4%
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.	41	£15,787	9.0%
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	£6,998	4.0%

Every year in the register

Grahame Morris’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	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	79	£94,081	£16,258	£18,105	£6,360	—	£134,804
2011-12	104	£123,347	£18,451	£19,704	£6,143	—	£167,645
2012-13	143	£128,100	£18,304	£19,845	£7,237	—	£173,485
2013-14	406	£130,291	£17,028	£19,900	£5,265	—	£172,484
2014-15	159	£136,391	£16,605	£15,787	£6,998	—	£175,779
2015-16	132	£125,431	£19,735	£12,657	£6,023	—	£163,846
2016-17	132	£111,415	£17,525	£14,844	£4,014	—	£147,798
2017-18	147	£132,397	£21,665	£21,987	£4,420	—	£180,469
2018-19	118	£139,954	£22,195	£20,831	£10,966	—	£193,946
2019-20	125	£137,300	£21,543	£21,081	£9,649	—	£189,573
2020-21	150	£170,328	£26,283	£17,752	£1,473	£1,087	£216,922
2021-22	161	£201,586	£15,845	£21,336	£6,189	—	£244,956
2022-23	170	£216,410	£20,252	£21,674	£5,768	—	£264,103
2023-24	177	£219,110	£26,257	£23,704	£7,017	—	£276,087
2024-25	171	£244,424	£25,420	£25,155	£7,363	—	£302,363
2025-26	42	—	£3,695	£3,253	—	—	£6,948

A year in which Grahame Morris 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, 2014-15

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£136,221
Public Tr UND Volunteer	1	£126
Food & Drink Volunteer	13	£39
Public Tr BUS Volunteer	2	£5

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	2	£5,997
Professional Services: Direct	1	£4,800
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	58	£2,773
Stationery Purchase	14	£667
Legal Exp/Emp Practice Insur.	2	£613
Professional Services	1	£600

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	12	£14,260
Council Tax	9	£943
Water	9	£207
Electricity	6	£164
Telephone Usage/Rental	4	£139
Television Licence	1	£73

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£6,998

Largest claims, 2014-15

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 2015	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2014-15 year	£136,221	£136,221
27 May 2014	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£7,200	£7,200
31 March 2015	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2014-15	£6,998	£6,998
9 June 2014	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	PRS subscription	£4,800	£4,800
1 September 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
3 June 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,486	£1,486
6 May 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,486	£1,486
7 April 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,486	£1,486
28 January 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£975	£975
26 December 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£975	£975
26 November 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£975	£975
27 October 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£975	£975
26 September 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£975	£975
11 June 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Rent	£975	£975
27 February 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£912	£912

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 Grahame Morris 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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