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, 2025-26

51 claims, £11,864 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
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	50	£8,608	72.6%
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.	1	£3,257	27.4%

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, 2025-26

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

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	22	£2,504
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	1	£1,143
Software & applications	4	£1,088
Stationery & printing	6	£1,078
Equipment - hire	5	£876
Insurance - contents	2	£818

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council tax	1	£3,257

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.

Date	Category	Cost type	Description	Claimed	Paid
1 April 2025	Accommodation	Council tax	Council tax on IPSA London property rental	£3,257	£3,257
4 February 2026	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	MY GROUP SOLUTIONS LIM	£1,143	£1,143
15 May 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£738	£738
18 September 2025	Office Costs	Insurance - contents	ARTHUR J GALLAGHER	£568	£568
5 February 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	SHARP BUSINESS SYSTEMS	£328	£328
6 September 2024	Office Costs	Insurance - contents	ARTHUR J GALLAGHER [200011782-555]	£250	£250
5 February 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2026	£220	£220
16 December 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - hire	Other office equipment	£205	£205
16 September 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - hire	Other office equipment	£205	£205
17 June 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - hire	Other office equipment	£205	£205
1 April 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - hire	Other office equipment	£205	£205
18 June 2025	Office Costs	TV licence	TVLICENSING.CO.UK	£175	£175
22 October 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	ZETTLE_ C M SUPPLIES	£163	£163
11 November 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ZUBTITLE.COM	£149	£149
10 November 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	SHARP BUSINESS SYSTEMS	£146	£146

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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