MPs’ business costs

Jonathan Reynolds

IPSA paid £3,059,572 against 1,786 published rows for Jonathan Reynolds between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Stalybridge and Hyde 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, 2017-18

91 claims, £191,634 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.	4	£133,259	69.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	58	£20,107	10.5%
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.	28	£26,659	13.9%
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	£11,610	6.1%

Every year in the register

Jonathan Reynolds’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	95	£85,664	£17,073	£17,566	£5,846	—	£126,150
2011-12	167	£102,633	£21,346	£16,916	£9,207	—	£150,102
2012-13	247	£133,014	£29,734	£22,046	£10,523	—	£195,316
2013-14	125	£146,186	£20,567	£23,032	£10,252	—	£200,037
2014-15	116	£137,537	£19,795	£21,398	£11,230	—	£189,961
2015-16	122	£133,644	£9,536	£23,915	£14,021	—	£181,116
2016-17	71	£128,052	£15,026	£25,518	£11,072	£220	£179,888
2017-18	91	£133,259	£20,107	£26,659	£11,610	—	£191,634
2018-19	116	£140,601	£23,388	£39,155	£12,738	£592	£216,474
2019-20	84	£152,805	£21,032	£41,709	£8,869	—	£224,415
2020-21	105	£152,437	£22,518	£31,417	£3,817	—	£210,188
2021-22	108	£167,046	£17,590	£39,700	£9,026	—	£233,363
2022-23	101	£178,364	£18,665	£40,467	£10,789	—	£248,285
2023-24	109	£181,059	£20,648	£43,861	£11,215	—	£256,783
2024-25	78	£173,394	£17,921	£45,109	£7,573	—	£243,997
2025-26	51	—	£8,608	£3,257	—	—	£11,864

A year in which Jonathan Reynolds 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, 2017-18

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£132,119
Staff Training Costs	3	£1,140

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Professional Services	2	£9,600
IT/Other Equipment Hire	9	£4,126
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	18	£1,955
Install/Maint Office Equip.	5	£1,123
Training MP Staff	1	£800
Computer HW Purchase	2	£706

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	13	£24,120
Council Tax	1	£1,117
Water	2	£890
Electricity	2	£241
Gas	3	£158
Telephone Usage/Rental	7	£133

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£11,610

Largest claims, 2017-18

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 2018	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2017-18 year	£132,119	£132,119
31 March 2018	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2017-18	£11,610	£11,610
27 March 2018	Office Costs	Professional Services	Parliamentary Research Service	£4,800	£4,800
1 April 2017	Office Costs	Professional Services	Parliamentary Research Service	£4,800	£4,800
9 February 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
9 January 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
11 December 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
9 November 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
9 October 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
13 September 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
10 August 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
12 July 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
11 June 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
11 May 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010
11 April 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,010	£2,010

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 Jonathan Reynolds 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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