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, 2017-18

147 claims, £180,469 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.	1	£132,397	73.4%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	114	£21,665	12.0%
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.	31	£21,987	12.2%
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	£4,420	2.4%

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, 2017-18

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£132,397

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	2	£7,042
Professional Services: Direct	1	£4,800
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	64	£3,350
Stationery Purchase	10	£2,759
Training MP Staff	2	£980
Professional Services	1	£850

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	17	£20,552
Council Tax	7	£519
Ground Rent	1	£399
Gas	3	£296
Electricity	2	£124
Water	1	£96

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£4,420

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	£132,397	£132,397
26 May 2017	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£6,297	£6,297
28 April 2017	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	PRS	£4,800	£4,800
31 March 2018	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2017-18	£4,420	£4,420
19 March 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,712	£1,712
19 February 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,712	£1,712
18 January 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,712	£1,712
18 December 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,712	£1,712
17 November 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,712	£1,712
17 October 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,712	£1,712
20 September 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,712	£1,712
19 August 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,712	£1,712
19 July 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,712	£1,712
27 June 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,500	£1,500
25 May 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,500	£1,500

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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