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, 2014-15

126 claims, £185,169 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.	2	£131,241	70.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	109	£16,973	9.2%
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.	14	£25,358	13.7%
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	£11,597	6.3%

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.

Year	Claims	Staffing	Office costs	Accommodation	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	131	£87,332	£10,334	£6,480	£7,002	—	£111,148
2011-12	154	£119,175	£13,669	£16,982	£10,020	—	£159,846
2012-13	167	£120,049	£16,665	£21,873	£10,051	—	£168,637
2013-14	141	£128,314	£13,199	£24,630	£11,736	—	£177,879
2014-15	126	£131,241	£16,973	£25,358	£11,597	—	£185,169
2015-16	132	£139,388	£15,394	£25,450	£9,510	—	£189,742
2016-17	113	£139,835	£16,592	£25,460	£10,225	—	£192,112
2017-18	121	£137,362	£15,627	£27,068	£7,586	—	£187,643
2018-19	120	£149,278	£17,467	£28,843	£11,454	—	£207,042
2019-20	207	£152,211	£18,629	£28,207	£8,678	£459	£208,185
2020-21	179	£168,353	£20,649	£27,953	£4,766	£45	£221,767
2021-22	171	£164,762	£18,244	£28,618	£8,004	—	£219,629
2022-23	193	£179,037	£23,746	£27,625	£7,302	£1,322	£239,032
2023-24	199	£208,938	£22,213	£26,000	£8,668	—	£265,820
2024-25	178	£223,735	£23,409	£27,882	£7,041	—	£282,068
2025-26	83	—	£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, 2014-15

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£130,663
Practice Liability Insurance	1	£578

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	5	£5,493
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	24	£4,529
Stationery Purchase	40	£3,046
Advertising	3	£1,274
Other Equip Purchase	1	£860
Newspapers/Journals	14	£647

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	14	£25,358

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£11,597

Largest claims, 2014-15

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 2015	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2014-15 year	£130,663	£130,663
31 March 2015	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2014-15	£11,597	£11,597
19 February 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,132	£2,132
21 January 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,132	£2,132
22 December 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,132	£2,132
21 November 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,080	£2,080
16 October 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,080	£2,080
17 September 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,080	£2,080
19 August 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,080	£2,080
15 July 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,080	£2,080
20 June 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,080	£2,080
19 May 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,080	£2,080
22 April 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,080	£2,080
1 April 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	[***]	£2,080	£2,080
19 March 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	office rents, rates, costs etc	£1,099	£1,099

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.

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