MPs’ business costs

Lloyd Hatton

IPSA paid £195,139 against 205 published rows for Lloyd Hatton between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for South Dorset 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

48 claims, £14,718 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.48£14,718100.0%

Every year in the register

Lloyd Hatton’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2024-25 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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2024-25157£134,477£26,799£14,462£4,671£12£180,421
2025-2648£14,718£14,718

A year in which Lloyd Hatton 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 typeClaimsPaid
Stationery & printing6£7,634
Website hosting and design2£1,900
Software & applications2£1,576
Training - staff3£1,300
Equipment - purchase8£1,015
Newspapers, journals, magazines11£867

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
14 October 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner November 2025£6,438£6,438
24 March 2025Office CostsWebsite hosting and designConsultant for lloyd.hatton.co.uk£1,500£1,500
30 October 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
6 October 2025Office CostsTraining - staffELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£600£600
14 October 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner November 2025£522£522
6 February 2026Office CostsEquipment - purchasePrinter, photocopier & scanner£437£437
15 October 2025Office CostsWebsite hosting and designConsultant work on website£400£400
10 September 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner October 2025£372£372
25 March 2026Office CostsTraining - staffstaff training£350£350
25 March 2026Office CostsTraining - staffStaff training£350£350
23 February 2026Office CostsNewspapers, journals, magazinesKapwing video editing software annual subscription£284£284
28 March 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOther office equipment£268£268
14 October 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner November 2025£166£166
24 July 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsConstituency advert in local press£111£111
17 October 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsCANVA [***]£100£100

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

10 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £2,140 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 Lloyd Hatton 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Lloyd Hatton’s register of interests and votes · Sources