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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, 2020-21

179 claims, £221,767 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.1£168,35375.9%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.155£20,6499.3%
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.17£27,95312.6%
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.5£4,7662.1%
MiscellaneousClaims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.1£450.0%

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, 2020-21

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£168,353

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent4£5,043
Stationery & printing73£3,345
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage12£2,450
Advertising and contact cards10£2,020
Working From Home Allowance1£1,740
Utilities8£1,640

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent11£25,582
Utilities4£1,244
Council tax1£1,127
MP Budget Overspend1£0

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Mileage - car3£3,434
Congestion charge & toll1£1,236
Rail1£97

Miscellaneous

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent1£45

Largest claims, 2020-21

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 2021StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year£168,353£168,353
31 March 2021MP TravelMileage - carAggregated figure for travel during 2020-21£2,642£2,642
23 February 2021AccommodationRent—£2,330£2,330
26 January 2021AccommodationRent—£2,330£2,330
30 December 2020AccommodationRent—£2,330£2,330
24 November 2020AccommodationRent—£2,330£2,330
25 October 2020AccommodationRent—£2,330£2,330
27 September 2020AccommodationRent—£2,330£2,330
23 August 2020AccommodationRent—£2,330£2,330
24 July 2020AccommodationRent—£2,330£2,330
27 May 2020AccommodationRent—£2,330£2,330
29 April 2020AccommodationRent—£2,330£2,330
23 March 2021AccommodationRent[200005976]£2,285£2,285
31 March 2021Office CostsWorking From Home AllowanceAggregated figure for 2020-21£1,740£1,740
18 March 2021Office CostsRentoffice rent£1,261£1,261

Claims refused and money repaid, 2020-21

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £283 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