MPs’ business costs

Sir Lindsay Hoyle

IPSA paid £3,026,171 against 1,042 published rows for Sir Lindsay Hoyle between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Chorley 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

45 claims, £130,351 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.	1	£114,907	88.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	40	£6,785	5.2%
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.	3	£2,539	1.9%
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	£6,120	4.7%

Every year in the register

Sir Lindsay Hoyle’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	45	£114,907	£6,785	£2,539	£6,120	—	£130,351
2011-12	67	£117,825	£12,850	£11,303	£12,261	—	£154,240
2012-13	62	£143,891	£11,682	£19,385	£14,775	—	£189,733
2013-14	89	£136,028	£23,406	£20,092	£16,819	—	£196,346
2014-15	79	£141,291	£14,401	£19,912	£21,720	—	£197,324
2015-16	72	£139,361	£12,639	£20,595	£20,353	—	£192,948
2016-17	71	£142,152	£21,865	£20,610	£21,069	—	£205,696
2017-18	69	£144,981	£16,720	£21,671	£15,808	—	£199,180
2018-19	76	£152,004	£21,619	£21,540	£19,811	—	£214,974
2019-20	106	£155,930	£23,521	£13,700	£21,431	£34,016	£248,598
2020-21	78	£146,497	£28,487	—	£7,649	—	£182,633
2021-22	51	£161,619	£21,292	—	£16,424	—	£199,335
2022-23	48	£168,327	£19,938	—	£16,240	—	£204,505
2023-24	49	£201,888	£23,984	—	£17,400	—	£243,273
2024-25	48	£212,000	£17,495	—	£8,613	—	£238,108
2025-26	32	—	£28,927	—	—	—	£28,927

A year in which Sir Lindsay Hoyle 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

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£114,907

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Stationery Purchase	7	£2,100
Business Rates	1	£1,077
Const Office Rent	2	£847
Office Furniture Purchase	2	£488
Advertising	12	£450
Professional Services	3	£427

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council Tax	1	£1,359
Service Charges	1	£787
Water	1	£394

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£6,120

Largest claims, 2010-11

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 2011	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2010-11 year	£114,907	£114,907
31 March 2011	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2010-11	£6,120	£6,120
9 July 2010	Accommodation	Council Tax	London Home expenses	£1,359	£1,359
31 July 2010	Office Costs	Business Rates	Chorley Office Service Charge	£1,077	£1,077
21 September 2010	Accommodation	Service Charges	Flat 6 monthly service charge	£787	£787
24 November 2010	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Various	£712	£712
13 September 2010	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Office stationary/furniture	£477	£477
11 October 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Chorley Office Service Charge	£423	£423
11 September 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Chorley Office Service Charge	£423	£423
9 July 2010	Accommodation	Water	London Home expenses	£394	£394
17 May 2010	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Surgery Advert in Local Press	£375	£375
1 September 2010	Office Costs	Office Furniture Purchase	Office stationary/furniture	£341	£341
22 July 2010	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Stationary Items	£286	£286
18 October 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Consti Office Phone 1/4 Bill	£283	£283
15 October 2010	Office Costs	Professional Services	Quarterly cleaning bill	£233	£233

Claims refused and money repaid, 2010-11

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £57 not paid and £0 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 Sir Lindsay Hoyle 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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