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, 2021-22

171 claims, £219,629 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	£164,762	75.0%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	141	£18,244	8.3%
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.	19	£28,618	13.0%
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.	9	£8,004	3.6%

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, 2021-22

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£164,262
Pooled staffing services	1	£500

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	1	£4,383
Stationery & printing	72	£2,888
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	11	£2,679
Equipment - purchase	6	£1,259
Mobile telephone - contract & usage	12	£1,253
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,250

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	12	£27,956
Utilities	7	£662

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	4	£4,942
Congestion charge & toll	1	£2,160
Rail	3	£821
Parking	1	£81

Largest claims, 2021-22

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 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£164,262	£164,262
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£4,383	£4,383
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£3,820	£3,820
24 March 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,330	£2,330
24 February 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,330	£2,330
25 January 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,330	£2,330
23 December 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,330	£2,330
23 November 2021	Accommodation	Rent	Rent	£2,330	£2,330
26 October 2021	Accommodation	Rent	Rent	£2,330	£2,330
23 September 2021	Accommodation	Rent	Rent	£2,330	£2,330
24 August 2021	Accommodation	Rent	Rent	£2,330	£2,330
27 July 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,330	£2,330
24 June 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,330	£2,330
22 June 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,330	£2,330
27 April 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,330	£2,330

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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