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, 2020-21

150 claims, £216,922 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	£170,328	78.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	119	£26,283	12.1%
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.	26	£17,752	8.2%
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.	3	£1,473	0.7%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£1,087	0.5%

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, 2020-21

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£170,328

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	1	£9,000
Pooled staffing services	2	£8,600
Equipment - purchase	11	£2,371
Mobile telephone - contract & usage	66	£2,002
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,558
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	11	£807

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	10	£16,069
Council tax	2	£926
Utilities	14	£757

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	2	£1,419
Taxi	1	£54

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	1	£1,087

Largest claims, 2020-21

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 2021	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year	£170,328	£170,328
1 August 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£9,000	£9,000
1 April 2021	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Socialist Parliamentary Research Group (Labour)	£5,000	£5,000
27 May 2020	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£3,600	£3,600
25 October 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,754	£1,754
27 September 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,754	£1,754
23 August 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,754	£1,754
24 July 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,754	£1,754
27 May 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,754	£1,754
29 April 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,754	£1,754
16 March 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,625	£1,625
16 February 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,625	£1,625
19 January 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,625	£1,625
31 March 2021	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for 2020-21	£1,558	£1,558
31 March 2021	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2020-21	£1,413	£1,413

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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