MPs’ business costs

Dr Kieran Mullan

IPSA paid £1,284,970 against 863 published rows for Dr Kieran Mullan between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Crewe and Nantwich CC, then Bexhill and Battle 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, 2023-24

160 claims, £265,239 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	£221,001	83.3%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	117	£17,416	6.6%
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.	28	£14,440	5.4%
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.	12	£12,171	4.6%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£210	0.1%

Every year in the register

Dr Kieran Mullan’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 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
2019-20	50	£16,692	£20,205	£3,533	£2,736	£300	£43,466
2020-21	123	£149,569	£25,096	£15,553	£1,560	£5,450	£197,228
2021-22	122	£180,001	£24,324	£19,348	£3,686	—	£227,359
2022-23	152	£181,972	£26,912	£18,240	£7,662	—	£234,786
2023-24	160	£221,001	£17,416	£14,440	£12,171	£210	£265,239
2024-25	189	£235,823	£32,562	£20,134	£7,101	£6,383	£302,004
2025-26	67	£200	£11,032	£3,656	—	—	£14,888

A year in which Dr Kieran Mullan 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, 2023-24

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£217,813
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,188

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	3	£9,450
Stationery & printing	56	£2,381
Service charge & ground Rent	2	£1,098
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	12	£1,075
Utilities	3	£694
Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection	10	£567

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	13	£12,050
Council tax	5	£1,442
Utilities	6	£860
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	4	£88

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	4	£6,656
Hotel - UK Not London	2	£2,064
Hotel - London	1	£1,896
Mileage - car	2	£1,261
Parking	1	£225
Subsistence	2	£68

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removals	1	£210

Largest claims, 2023-24

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 2024	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2023-24 year	£217,813	£217,813
31 March 2024	Staff Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2023-24	£4,458	£4,458
25 April 2023	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,188	£3,188
26 December 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£3,150	£3,150
26 September 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£3,150	£3,150
27 June 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£3,150	£3,150
31 March 2024	Staff Travel	Hotel - UK Not London	Aggregated figure for travel during 2023-24	£1,964	£1,964
31 March 2024	Staff Travel	Hotel - London	Aggregated figure for travel during 2023-24	£1,896	£1,896
31 March 2024	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2023-24	£1,651	£1,651
12 March 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,100	£1,100
13 February 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,100	£1,100
11 January 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,100	£1,100
18 December 2023	Accommodation	Rent	[*][][**]	£1,100	£1,100
14 November 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,100	£1,100
12 October 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,100	£1,100

Claims refused and money repaid, 2023-24

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £232 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 Dr Kieran Mullan 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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