MPs’ business costs

Jade Botterill

IPSA paid £234,992 against 214 published rows for Jade Botterill between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Ossett and Denby Dale 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, 2025-26

51 claims, £13,074 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.50£12,66496.9%
AccommodationThe 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.1£4103.1%

Every year in the register

Jade Botterill’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2024-25 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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelTotal
2024-25163£156,039£29,141£21,179£15,558£221,917
2025-2651£12,664£410£13,074

A year in which Jade Botterill 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, 2025-26

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

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Service charge & ground Rent4£1,800
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage12£1,780
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs6£1,685
Advertising and contact cards3£1,480
Software & applications1£1,476
Utilities8£1,470

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Utilities1£410

Largest claims, 2025-26

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
20 June 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
12 December 2025Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsRepainting of the office following leak and to uphold lease terms£1,020£1,020
11 December 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOffice furniture£1,015£1,015
4 June 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£630£630
20 May 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsAdvertisment for MP´s contact details at local sports facility£500£500
11 May 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsAdvertising the MP´s contact details at local sports club£500£500
11 March 2026Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsPitchside Advertising Board£480£480
15 December 2025Office CostsService charge & ground RentService Charge for the constituency office£450£450
15 September 2025Office CostsService charge & ground RentService Charge for the Constituency Office£450£450
19 June 2025Office CostsService charge & ground RentQuarterly Service Charge + VAT£450£450
15 April 2025Office CostsService charge & ground RentService Charge for next Quarter + VAT£450£450
10 November 2025AccommodationUtilitiesElectricity£410£410
29 November 2025Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsDeep clean of the office following leak£233£233
30 April 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline & internet package£226£226
28 March 2026Office CostsStationery & printingXMA March 2026£204£204

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 Jade Botterill 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Jade Botterill’s register of interests and votes · Sources