MPs’ business costs
Martin Rhodes
IPSA paid £155,205 against 320 published rows for Martin Rhodes between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Glasgow North 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, 2025-26
86 claims, £21,764 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. | 1 | £96 | 0.4% |
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 80 | £18,681 | 85.8% |
| 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. | 5 | £2,987 | 13.7% |
Every year in the register
Martin Rhodes’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.
| Year | Claims | Staffing | Office costs | Accommodation | Travel | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 234 | £82,592 | £23,969 | £14,217 | £12,663 | £133,441 |
| 2025-26 | 86 | £96 | £18,681 | £2,987 | — | £21,764 |
A year in which Martin Rhodes 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.
Staffing
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Training - staff | 1 | £96 |
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising and contact cards | 9 | £7,578 |
| Utilities | 15 | £2,341 |
| Equipment - purchase | 9 | £2,134 |
| Software & applications | 3 | £1,684 |
| Stationery & printing | 7 | £1,441 |
| Cleaning services | 11 | £1,340 |
Accommodation
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Council tax | 1 | £1,582 |
| Utilities | 4 | £1,405 |
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.
| Date | Category | Cost type | Description | Claimed | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | LEAFLETDROP | £3,745 | £3,745 |
| 27 January 2026 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | MCALLISTER LITHO GLASG | £2,136 | £2,136 |
| 25 March 2025 | Accommodation | Council tax | City of Westminster Council Tax 2025-26 | £1,582 | £1,582 |
| 7 August 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £1,476 | £1,476 |
| 17 March 2025 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Printer, photocopier & scanner | £1,200 | £1,200 |
| 5 March 2026 | Office Costs | Utilities | Water | £831 | £831 |
| 12 March 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Water | £684 | £684 |
| 11 February 2026 | Accommodation | Utilities | Water | £551 | £551 |
| 12 February 2025 | Accommodation | Utilities | Water | £534 | £534 |
| 25 March 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | Advert in Community Programme for WestFest | £400 | £400 |
| 10 September 2025 | Office Costs | Website hosting and design | XTENSIVE WEB DESIGN | £361 | £361 |
| 4 June 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | Replacement of window vinyls following landlord´s window replacement scheme for building | £318 | £318 |
| 12 January 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | WWW.TONERGIANT.CO.UK | £282 | £282 |
| 1 June 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | WWW.TONERGIANT.CO.UK | £272 | £272 |
| 12 June 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | Pitchisde Banner - Glasgow Perthshire FC | £250 | £250 |
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 Martin Rhodes 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 · Martin Rhodes’s register of interests and votes · Sources