MPs’ business costs

John Glen

IPSA paid £2,942,148 against 2,432 published rows for John Glen between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Salisbury 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, 2016-17

118 claims, £185,108 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.	5	£138,840	75.0%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	81	£20,624	11.1%
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.	31	£21,038	11.4%
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	£4,605	2.5%

Every year in the register

John Glen’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	118	£85,446	£16,753	£16,646	£4,373	—	£123,217
2011-12	290	£103,480	£18,544	£24,250	£5,516	—	£151,790
2012-13	228	£128,108	£21,832	£17,677	£5,774	—	£173,391
2013-14	161	£135,362	£17,995	£18,368	£6,237	—	£177,962
2014-15	129	£106,035	£16,622	£20,728	£7,089	—	£150,473
2015-16	115	£131,589	£20,867	£20,644	£4,723	—	£177,823
2016-17	118	£138,840	£20,624	£21,038	£4,605	—	£185,108
2017-18	117	£141,440	£21,667	£22,769	£5,721	—	£191,597
2018-19	126	£150,869	£24,597	£22,543	£7,135	—	£205,145
2019-20	165	£154,059	£23,691	£17,014	£7,150	—	£201,914
2020-21	140	£169,719	£25,593	£14,920	£3,948	—	£214,180
2021-22	144	£159,940	£22,838	£16,319	£4,633	—	£203,730
2022-23	188	£171,703	£27,412	£17,889	£6,302	£1,440	£224,745
2023-24	162	£196,152	£27,189	£19,140	£4,262	—	£246,743
2024-25	171	£236,755	£25,854	£19,789	£6,386	£449	£289,233
2025-26	60	£5,433	£14,665	£4,999	—	—	£25,097

A year in which John Glen 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, 2016-17

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£132,910
Professional Services (Staff.)	3	£5,700
Health and Welfare Costs	1	£230

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	12	£8,500
Advertising	13	£3,226
Professional Services: Direct	1	£2,671
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	24	£2,263
Stationery Purchase	14	£1,979
Venue Hire Surgery/Meeting	12	£900

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	12	£18,564
Water	2	£946
Service Charges	1	£525
Council Tax	1	£502
Telephone Usage/Rental	11	£380
Electricity	4	£122

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£4,605

Largest claims, 2016-17

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 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£132,910	£132,910
31 March 2017	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2016-17	£4,605	£4,605
25 May 2016	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	PRU	£2,671	£2,671
2 March 2017	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***]	£1,900	£1,900
28 November 2016	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Double Nov 16	£1,900	£1,900
5 July 2016	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	[***] July 16	£1,900	£1,900
24 February 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,547	£1,547
25 January 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,547	£1,547
20 December 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,547	£1,547
25 November 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,547	£1,547
26 October 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,547	£1,547
27 September 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,547	£1,547
24 August 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,547	£1,547
29 July 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,547	£1,547
29 June 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,547	£1,547

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 John Glen 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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