MPs’ business costs

Jon Trickett

IPSA paid £3,020,110 against 1,540 published rows for Jon Trickett between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Hemsworth CC, then Normanton and Hemsworth 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, 2025-26

33 claims, £43,389 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.7£24,90057.4%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.11£13,23430.5%
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.15£5,25512.1%

Every year in the register

Jon Trickett’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
2010-1197£95,252£17,143£980£6,634£120,010
2011-12128£114,861£21,309£15,600£5,422£157,191
2012-13145£118,553£13,202£23,400£8,064£163,219
2013-14269£125,872£13,326£20,100£6,729£166,027
2014-15100£135,590£18,118£20,600£5,165£179,473
2015-1680£142,781£14,470£20,201£5,866£183,318
2016-1765£121,187£17,309£20,610£5,391£164,498
2017-1878£146,201£16,169£22,514£3,580£188,465
2018-1975£141,636£18,868£22,100£5,058£187,662
2019-2096£146,984£18,191£22,442£6,763£194,380
2020-2164£191,050£11,597£23,043£3,712£19,400£248,802
2021-2247£195,787£14,921£23,290£2,628£236,626
2022-2358£207,096£11,069£24,375£5,424£247,963
2023-24101£235,497£18,778£6,214£4,746£265,234
2024-25104£234,049£33,169£2,461£4,175£273,854
2025-2633£24,900£13,234£5,255£43,389

A year in which Jon Trickett 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, 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Bought-in services7£24,900

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Bought-in services3£11,400
Stationery & printing6£984
Software & applications1£738
Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection1£111

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Council tax10£2,583
Service charge & ground Rent2£2,179
Parking1£264
Utilities2£229

Largest claims, 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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
14 April 2025StaffingBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£4,800£4,800
7 July 2025StaffingBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£4,500£4,500
23 May 2025StaffingBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£4,500£4,500
21 January 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£4,200£4,200
2 December 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£3,600£3,600
1 December 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£3,600£3,600
6 November 2025StaffingBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£3,600£3,600
1 October 2025StaffingBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£3,300£3,300
5 September 2025StaffingBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£3,000£3,000
16 March 2026StaffingBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£1,200£1,200
6 March 2025AccommodationService charge & ground RentService charge 2025£1,096£1,096
3 September 2025AccommodationService charge & ground RentHalf yearly service charge£1,083£1,083
17 April 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsElected Technologies subscription£738£738
1 October 2025AccommodationCouncil taxCouncil tax for flat£304£304
1 September 2025AccommodationCouncil taxCouncil Tax£304£304

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 Jon Trickett 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 · Jon Trickett’s register of interests and votes · Sources