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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, 2020-21

280 claims, £222,480 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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£169,18876.0%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.241£29,51313.3%
AccommodationThe 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.25£21,3459.6%
TravelJourneys 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.5£2,1841.0%
MiscellaneousClaims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.7£2500.1%

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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2010-11125£78,948£17,605£9,983£5,665—£112,200
2011-12148£101,258£18,852£2,049£8,830—£130,988
2012-13170£114,980£17,517£2,943£9,406—£144,845
2013-14171£106,104£17,418£4,075£9,174—£136,770
2014-15191£120,299£18,186£4,724£7,528—£150,737
2015-16218£103,607£22,276£4,128£12,564£1,151£143,726
2016-17213£102,663£18,568£4,430£9,380—£135,042
2017-18203£110,220£21,862£3,990£10,961—£147,034
2018-19229£134,197£21,481£3,634£14,700—£174,012
2019-20175£126,617£20,418£3,243£15,076—£165,354
2020-21280£169,188£29,513£21,345£2,184£250£222,480
2021-22189£170,656£23,819£28,836£9,940—£233,252
2022-23218£188,691£29,947£33,443£13,770£446£266,296
2023-24233£186,471£31,250£31,750£18,501£2,253£270,224
2024-25198£210,002£27,057£34,804£23,243—£295,106
2025-2657—£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, 2020-21

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£168,984
Health & welfare - staff1£204

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent11£10,692
Equipment - purchase39£5,740
Stationery & printing37£2,807
Mobile telephone - contract & usage69£2,697
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage23£1,748
Working From Home Allowance1£1,247

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent8£18,963
Utilities7£1,301
Council tax5£863
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage4£218
MP Budget Overspend1£0

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Mileage - car1£1,292
Vehicle hire cost1£456
Rail1£314
Taxi2£122

Miscellaneous

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Removals7£250

Largest claims, 2020-21

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
31 March 2021StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year£168,984£168,984
20 May 2020Office CostsEquipment - purchaseComputer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories£2,644£2,644
9 March 2021AccommodationRent—£2,370£2,370
9 February 2021AccommodationRent—£2,370£2,370
12 January 2021AccommodationRent—£2,370£2,370
8 December 2020AccommodationRent—£2,370£2,370
8 November 2020AccommodationRent—£2,370£2,370
11 October 2020AccommodationRent—£2,370£2,370
8 September 2020AccommodationRent—£2,370£2,370
12 August 2020AccommodationRent!st Month Rent£2,370£2,370
31 March 2021MP TravelMileage - carAggregated figure for travel during 2020-21£1,292£1,292
31 March 2021Office CostsWorking From Home AllowanceAggregated figure for 2020-21£1,247£1,247
2 March 2021Office CostsRent—£972£972
2 February 2021Office CostsRent—£972£972
6 January 2021Office CostsRent—£972£972

Claims refused and money repaid, 2020-21

4 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £480 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Sir Mark Hendrick’s register of interests and votes · Sources