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MPs’ business costs

Sir John Hayes

IPSA paid £3,029,886 against 2,415 published rows for Sir John Hayes between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for South Holland and The Deepings CC, then South Holland and the Deepings 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

154 claims, £159,846 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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.4£119,17574.6%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.113£13,6698.6%
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.36£16,98210.6%
TravelJourneys 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£10,0206.3%

Every year in the register

Sir John Hayes’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2010-11131£87,332£10,334£6,480£7,002—£111,148
2011-12154£119,175£13,669£16,982£10,020—£159,846
2012-13167£120,049£16,665£21,873£10,051—£168,637
2013-14141£128,314£13,199£24,630£11,736—£177,879
2014-15126£131,241£16,973£25,358£11,597—£185,169
2015-16132£139,388£15,394£25,450£9,510—£189,742
2016-17113£139,835£16,592£25,460£10,225—£192,112
2017-18121£137,362£15,627£27,068£7,586—£187,643
2018-19120£149,278£17,467£28,843£11,454—£207,042
2019-20207£152,211£18,629£28,207£8,678£459£208,185
2020-21179£168,353£20,649£27,953£4,766£45£221,767
2021-22171£164,762£18,244£28,618£8,004—£219,629
2022-23193£179,037£23,746£27,625£7,302£1,322£239,032
2023-24199£208,938£22,213£26,000£8,668—£265,820
2024-25178£223,735£23,409£27,882£7,041—£282,068
2025-2683—£14,168———£14,168

A year in which Sir John Hayes 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 typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£119,075
Reward and Recognition Payment3£100

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Const Office Rent5£5,493
Payment Telephone/Mobile20£2,649
Stationery Purchase32£2,029
Other41£1,481
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental4£738
Legal Expenses Insurance1£636

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Mortgage Interest12£10,677
Service Charges4£3,300
Council Tax5£1,031
Home Contents Insurance7£755
Gas3£526
Water1£450

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Aggregated Travel Costs1£10,020

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
31 March 2012StaffingPayrollTotal payroll costs for the 2011-12 year£119,075£119,075
31 March 2012TravelAggregated Travel CostsAggregated figure for travel during 2011-12£10,020£10,020
30 March 2012Office CostsConst Office RentOffice rents rates costs etc£1,099£1,099
7 February 2012Office CostsConst Office RentOffice rent rates costs etc£1,099£1,099
8 November 2011Office CostsConst Office RentOffice rent rates costs etc£1,099£1,099
12 July 2011Office CostsConst Office RentOffice rents rates costs etc£1,099£1,099
6 April 2011Office CostsConst Office Rentoffice rents rates costs etc£1,099£1,099
15 March 2012AccommodationMortgage Interestmortgage£890£890
15 February 2012AccommodationMortgage Interestmortgage£890£890
13 January 2012AccommodationMortgage Interestmortgage£890£890
15 December 2011AccommodationMortgage Interestmortgage interest£890£890
15 November 2011AccommodationMortgage Interestmortgage£890£890
14 October 2011AccommodationMortgage Interestmortgage£890£890
15 September 2011AccommodationMortgage Interestmortgage£890£890
15 August 2011AccommodationMortgage Interestmortgage£890£890

Claims refused and money repaid, 2011-12

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £50 repaid. A refusal is not a finding of wrongdoing — most are claims outside the scheme’s rules, or submitted without the evidence IPSA requires — and it is shown because leaving it out would show only the money that went out.

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 John Hayes 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 · Sir John Hayes’s register of interests and votes · Sources