MPs’ business costs

Jesse Norman

IPSA paid £1,901,713 against 1,335 published rows for Jesse Norman between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Hereford and South Herefordshire 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, 2023-24

50 claims, £125,101 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.	14	£105,879	84.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	35	£18,808	15.0%
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	£414	0.3%

Every year in the register

Jesse Norman’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	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	85	£78,631	£17,935	—	—	£96,566
2011-12	99	£106,514	£16,506	£312	—	£123,332
2012-13	101	£111,573	£16,939	£270	—	£128,781
2013-14	123	£119,344	£18,169	£452	—	£137,966
2014-15	91	£125,108	£17,759	£55	—	£142,922
2015-16	105	£118,291	£21,938	£32	—	£140,261
2016-17	106	£114,372	£19,196	£203	£90	£133,861
2017-18	79	£98,674	£23,659	£359	—	£122,693
2018-19	71	£95,907	£12,315	£401	—	£108,623
2019-20	103	£95,138	£19,642	£336	—	£115,116
2020-21	72	£97,302	£16,417	£615	—	£114,333
2021-22	73	£95,368	£23,660	£71	—	£119,099
2022-23	71	£103,356	£18,313	£292	—	£121,961
2023-24	50	£105,879	£18,808	£414	—	£125,101
2024-25	68	£117,095	£19,187	£283	—	£136,564
2025-26	38	£24,602	£9,935	—	—	£34,537

A year in which Jesse Norman 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, 2023-24

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£76,926
Bought-in services	12	£25,762
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,191

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	5	£9,306
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	10	£2,837
Service charge & ground Rent	5	£2,328
Website hosting and design	2	£1,931
Software & applications	1	£690
Utilities	1	£519

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	1	£414

Largest claims, 2023-24

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 2024	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2023-24 year	£76,926	£76,926
18 April 2023	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,191	£3,191
27 October 2023	Office Costs	Rent	Rent for constituency office and basement for the period 29.09.23 to 24.12.23	£2,556	£2,556
22 March 2024	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,425	£2,425
15 December 2023	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,307	£2,307
1 November 2023	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,307	£2,307
30 June 2023	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,307	£2,307
6 April 2023	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,287	£2,287
22 December 2023	Office Costs	Rent	Rent for constituency office and basement storage for the quarter 25 December 2023 to 24 March 2024	£2,250	£2,250
12 April 2023	Office Costs	Rent	Rent Constituency office Suite 2a, Penn House, Broad Street, Hereford for the period 25 March 2023 to 23 June 2023	£2,250	£2,250
23 February 2024	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,115	£2,115
9 June 2023	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,115	£2,115
30 June 2023	Office Costs	Rent	Rent Constituency Office Suite 2a, Penn House for the period 24 June 2023 to 28 September 2023	£2,100	£2,100
27 October 2023	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,018	£2,018
21 September 2023	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£2,018	£2,018

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 Jesse Norman 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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