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, 2019-20

175 claims, £165,354 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.	4	£126,617	76.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	130	£20,418	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.	22	£3,243	2.0%
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.	19	£15,076	9.1%

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, 2019-20

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£126,548
Health & welfare - staff	3	£69

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	16	£12,018
Mobile telephone - contract & usage	45	£1,726
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	14	£1,575
Stationery & printing	10	£1,218
Utilities	7	£830
Cleaning services	8	£701

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council tax	12	£2,361
Utilities	7	£783
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	3	£99

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	4	£13,318
Taxi	3	£704
Hotel - European	1	£350
Air travel	1	£281
Vehicle hire cost	1	£211
Mileage - car	3	£76

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	£126,548	£126,548
31 March 2020	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20	£11,861	£11,861
31 March 2020	Dependant Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20	£1,154	£1,154
1 April 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£972	£972
4 March 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£972	£972
5 February 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£972	£972
2 January 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£972	£972
5 December 2019	Office Costs	Rent	—	£972	£972
1 November 2019	Office Costs	Rent	Direct rental payment	£972	£972
2 October 2019	Office Costs	Rent	Direct rental payment	£972	£972
1 September 2019	Office Costs	Rent	Direct rental payment	£972	£972
1 August 2019	Office Costs	Rent	Direct rental payment	£972	£972
3 July 2019	Office Costs	Rent	Direct rental payment	£972	£972
1 June 2019	Office Costs	Rent	Direct rental payment	£972	£972
1 May 2019	Office Costs	Rent	Direct rental payment	£972	£972

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 £465 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 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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