MPs’ business costs

John Healey

IPSA paid £3,345,360 against 3,954 published rows for John Healey between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Wentworth and Dearne CC, then Rawmarsh and Conisbrough 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, 2010-11 to 2025-26

3,954 claims, £3,345,360 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.	66	£2,417,370	72.3%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	3,318	£401,735	12.0%
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.	477	£320,967	9.6%
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.	80	£179,545	5.4%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	13	£25,743	0.8%

Every year in the register

John Healey’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	250	£85,840	£19,152	£15,532	£11,100	—	£131,624
2011-12	313	£112,197	£21,083	£18,462	£13,924	£70	£165,735
2012-13	325	£133,033	£25,309	£22,060	£15,753	£696	£196,851
2013-14	277	£136,080	£22,560	£20,730	£11,718	—	£191,088
2014-15	306	£138,600	£23,442	£18,899	£12,071	—	£193,012
2015-16	271	£139,797	£22,534	£20,600	£12,268	—	£195,199
2016-17	226	£156,514	£23,378	£20,503	£14,467	—	£214,861
2017-18	227	£144,875	£23,367	£22,396	£8,807	—	£199,445
2018-19	239	£145,217	£21,852	£22,592	£14,016	—	£203,677
2019-20	253	£155,276	£25,661	£22,449	£13,678	£276	£217,340
2020-21	222	£188,418	£38,146	£21,055	£6,286	£1,226	£255,131
2021-22	235	£200,526	£25,758	£23,025	£10,827	—	£260,136
2022-23	231	£221,331	£24,246	£23,311	£12,733	—	£281,621
2023-24	281	£227,666	£34,420	£22,558	£11,884	—	£296,527
2024-25	207	£232,001	£29,852	£25,325	£10,015	£23,475	£320,668
2025-26	91	—	£20,977	£1,469	—	—	£22,446

A year in which John Healey 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, 2010-11 to 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	15	£2,347,232
Pooled staffing services	6	£18,800
Pooled Services	10	£16,800
Pooled Staffing Services	4	£10,800
Pooled Services: Direct	2	£9,600
Professional Services (Staff.)	6	£5,787

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	25	£49,274
Const Office Rent	40	£35,896
Utilities	135	£27,050
Equipment - purchase	71	£24,568
Stationery Purchase	211	£23,859
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	240	£15,539

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	111	£163,059
Rent	48	£129,072
Council Tax	42	£8,469
Council tax	9	£6,580
Water	37	£2,615
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	52	£2,342

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	9	£114,124
Rail	18	£38,246
Mileage - car	17	£17,122
Parking	14	£5,819
Congestion charge & toll	6	£1,685
Hotel - London	2	£1,334

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Redundancy	1	£23,019
Approved costs outside the Scheme	1	£950
Removal Costs - Contingency	1	£696
Website hosting and design	2	£526
Bought-in services	3	£456
Contingency	4	£70

Largest claims, 2010-11 to 2025-26

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 2025	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year	£229,701	£229,701
31 March 2024	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2023-24 year	£222,541	£222,541
31 March 2023	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2022-23 year	£216,700	£216,700
31 March 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£195,900	£195,900
31 March 2021	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year	£181,174	£181,174
31 March 2020	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2019-20 year	£153,600	£153,600
31 March 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£151,714	£151,714
31 March 2018	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2017-18 year	£139,195	£139,195
31 March 2015	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2014-15 year	£138,718	£138,718
31 March 2019	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2018-19 year	£136,193	£136,193
31 March 2016	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2015-16 year	£136,051	£136,051
31 March 2014	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2013-14 year	£131,280	£131,280
31 March 2013	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2012-13 year	£122,446	£122,446
31 March 2012	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2011-12 year	£107,379	£107,379
31 March 2011	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2010-11 year	£84,640	£84,640

Claims refused and money repaid, 2010-11 to 2025-26

45 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £1,386 not paid and £6,361 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 John Healey 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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