MPs’ business costs

Sir Mark Hendrick

IPSA paid £2,737,500 against 3,018 published rows for Sir Mark Hendrick between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Preston BC. 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, 2018-19

229 claims, £174,012 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	£134,197	77.1%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	195	£21,481	12.3%
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.	31	£3,634	2.1%
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	£14,700	8.4%

Every year in the register

Sir Mark Hendrick’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	125	£78,948	£17,605	£9,983	£5,665	—	£112,200
2011-12	148	£101,258	£18,852	£2,049	£8,830	—	£130,988
2012-13	170	£114,980	£17,517	£2,943	£9,406	—	£144,845
2013-14	171	£106,104	£17,418	£4,075	£9,174	—	£136,770
2014-15	191	£120,299	£18,186	£4,724	£7,528	—	£150,737
2015-16	218	£103,607	£22,276	£4,128	£12,564	£1,151	£143,726
2016-17	213	£102,663	£18,568	£4,430	£9,380	—	£135,042
2017-18	203	£110,220	£21,862	£3,990	£10,961	—	£147,034
2018-19	229	£134,197	£21,481	£3,634	£14,700	—	£174,012
2019-20	175	£126,617	£20,418	£3,243	£15,076	—	£165,354
2020-21	280	£169,188	£29,513	£21,345	£2,184	£250	£222,480
2021-22	189	£170,656	£23,819	£28,836	£9,940	—	£233,252
2022-23	218	£188,691	£29,947	£33,443	£13,770	£446	£266,296
2023-24	233	£186,471	£31,250	£31,750	£18,501	£2,253	£270,224
2024-25	198	£210,002	£27,057	£34,804	£23,243	—	£295,106
2025-26	57	—	£8,473	£962	—	—	£9,434

A year in which Sir Mark Hendrick 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, 2018-19

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£132,197
Practice Liability Insurance	1	£2,000

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	12	£9,902
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	70	£4,412
Stationery Purchase	11	£1,418
Const Office Electricity	12	£1,256
Const Office Cleaning	15	£1,052
Contents Insurance	1	£530

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council Tax	12	£2,255
Telephone Usage/Rental	11	£369
Electricity	4	£359
Water	2	£326
Gas	2	£325

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£14,700

Largest claims, 2018-19

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 2019	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2018-19 year	£132,197	£132,197
31 March 2019	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2018-19	£14,700	£14,700
15 March 2019	Staffing	Practice Liability Insurance	Employment Practices Liability	£2,000	£2,000
26 February 2019	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£972	£972
29 January 2019	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£972	£972
19 December 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£972	£972
22 November 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£859	£859
24 October 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£859	£859
25 September 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£859	£859
25 August 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£859	£859
25 July 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£859	£859
29 June 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£859	£859
29 May 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£859	£859
25 April 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£859	£859
27 March 2019	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Payment Card - March 19	£536	£536

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 Mark Hendrick 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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