MPs’ business costs

Dr Luke Evans

IPSA paid £1,293,507 against 807 published rows for Dr Luke Evans between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Bosworth CC, then Hinckley and Bosworth 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, 2019-20

40 claims, £42,109 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.	3	£31,723	75.3%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	22	£2,310	5.5%
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.	12	£6,426	15.3%
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.	3	£1,650	3.9%

Every year in the register

Dr Luke Evans’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	40	£31,723	£2,310	£6,426	£1,650	—	£42,109
2020-21	86	£152,037	£16,942	£22,800	£1,112	—	£192,891
2021-22	113	£177,139	£21,761	£23,295	£4,386	—	£226,582
2022-23	155	£199,547	£25,723	£22,893	£5,463	—	£253,625
2023-24	178	£213,143	£22,780	£24,198	£5,676	£912	£266,710
2024-25	180	£227,833	£27,847	£29,067	£5,821	—	£290,568
2025-26	55	£1,150	£16,163	£3,709	—	—	£21,022

A year in which Dr Luke Evans 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, 2019-20

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£30,800
Pooled staffing services	1	£885
Health & welfare - staff	1	£38

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Training - staff	2	£984
Software & applications	3	£916
Stationery & printing	15	£178
Equipment - purchase	1	£144
Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection	1	£87

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	2	£3,800
Hotel - London	8	£2,592
MP Budget Overspend	2	£34

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	1	£975
Rail	2	£675

Largest claims, 2019-20

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 2020	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2019-20 year	£30,800	£30,800
25 March 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,900	£1,900
25 March 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,900	£1,900
31 March 2020	MP Travel	Hotel - London	Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20	£975	£975
6 March 2020	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£885	£885
20 February 2020	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£600	£600
31 March 2020	Office Costs	Training - staff	PARLI-TRAINING	£594	£594
20 February 2020	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[***]	£510	£510
31 March 2020	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20	£480	£480
20 February 2020	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[***]	£455	£455
20 February 2020	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[***]	£449	£449
20 February 2020	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[***]	£437	£437
20 March 2020	Office Costs	Training - staff	PARLI-TRAINING	£390	£390
20 February 2020	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[***]	£390	£390
6 January 2020	Accommodation	Hotel - London	Jan 6th - 9th - 3 nights [*] [*] - Personal Payment	£387	£387

Claims refused and money repaid, 2019-20

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £34 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 Luke Evans 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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