MPs’ business costs

Sir Jeremy Hunt

IPSA paid £2,672,576 against 2,029 published rows for Sir Jeremy Hunt between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for South West Surrey CC, then Godalming and Ash 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, 2011-12

303 claims, £115,438 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.	245	£99,379	86.1%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	41	£12,587	10.9%
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.	16	£1,332	1.2%
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	£2,140	1.9%

Every year in the register

Sir Jeremy Hunt’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	81	£80,896	£7,805	—	£733	—	£89,433
2011-12	303	£99,379	£12,587	£1,332	£2,140	—	£115,438
2012-13	271	£99,084	£14,647	£2,051	£2,307	£252	£118,341
2013-14	119	£141,547	£16,759	£2,392	£1,299	—	£161,998
2014-15	144	£144,925	£18,341	£940	£1,305	—	£165,510
2015-16	207	£144,662	£19,490	—	£2,174	£37	£166,364
2016-17	165	£139,276	£14,822	—	£2,137	—	£156,235
2017-18	79	£142,207	£14,948	—	£1,525	—	£158,679
2018-19	89	£151,730	£20,235	—	£3,052	—	£175,018
2019-20	139	£155,850	£21,496	—	£2,931	£9,450	£189,727
2020-21	49	£186,138	£27,713	—	£715	—	£214,566
2021-22	55	£203,066	£19,489	—	£1,199	—	£223,754
2022-23	99	£213,764	£18,242	—	£1,066	£1,440	£234,513
2023-24	82	£211,605	£24,647	—	£1,219	—	£237,472
2024-25	107	£227,595	£26,262	—	£1,519	—	£255,377
2025-26	40	—	£10,153	—	—	—	£10,153

A year in which Sir Jeremy Hunt 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, 2011-12

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£97,074
Public Tr RAIL Other Int/Volnt	30	£986
Own Vehicle Car Intern/Vlntr	125	£792
Public Tr UND Int/Volntr	41	£274
Own Vehicle Mtr Cycle Intern/Vlntr	17	£106
Food & Drink Intern/Volunteer	22	£99

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	4	£5,809
Professional Services	2	£4,091
Stationery Purchase	11	£959
Legal Expenses Insurance	1	£636
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	4	£481
Other	3	£152

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council Tax	6	£823
Electricity	2	£285
Telephone Usage/Rental	8	£224

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£2,140

Largest claims, 2011-12

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 2012	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2011-12 year	£97,074	£97,074
3 June 2011	Office Costs	Professional Services	PRU	£3,960	£3,960
31 March 2012	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2011-12	£2,140	£2,140
12 December 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Rent for Q2+Q4	£1,576	£1,576
15 June 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Q2 Constituency Office Rent	£1,439	£1,439
13 April 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Const Office Q1 2011	£1,426	£1,426
23 September 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Office Rent Q3	£1,368	£1,368
9 August 2011	Office Costs	Legal Expenses Insurance	EPL Insurance	£636	£636
20 October 2011	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Headed Constituency Paper	£336	£336
22 March 2012	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Headed Paper	£299	£299
6 February 2012	Accommodation	Electricity	nPower Gas and Electricity	£202	£202
1 April 2011	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Printer cartridges	£169	£169
1 October 2011	Accommodation	Council Tax	[***] - CT	£138	£138
1 September 2011	Accommodation	Council Tax	[***] - CT	£138	£138
1 August 2011	Accommodation	Council Tax	[***]	£138	£138

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 Jeremy Hunt 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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