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, 2015-16

72 claims, £192,948 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	£139,361	72.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	54	£12,639	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.	16	£20,595	10.7%
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	£20,353	10.5%

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, 2015-16

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£139,361

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
IT/Other Equipment Hire	3	£3,999
Stationery Purchase	15	£2,721
Const Office Rent	5	£1,708
Advertising	18	£1,073
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	2	£972
Legal Exp/Emp Practice Insur.	1	£578

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	13	£19,787
Council Tax	1	£673
Water	1	£454
Budget Repayment (Accomm.)	1	£-319

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£20,353

Largest claims, 2015-16

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 2016	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2015-16 year	£139,361	£139,361
31 March 2016	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2015-16	£20,353	£20,353
11 June 2015	Office Costs	IT/Other Equipment Hire	Office Costs	£1,903	£1,903
4 February 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
4 January 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
4 December 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
3 November 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
2 October 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
4 September 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
4 August 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
7 July 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
16 June 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
1 May 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
2 April 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
16 March 2016	Office Costs	IT/Other Equipment Hire	Office Costs	£1,068	£1,068

Claims refused and money repaid, 2015-16

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £335 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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