MPs’ business costs

Martin Vickers

IPSA paid £2,316,777 against 1,806 published rows for Martin Vickers between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Cleethorpes CC, then Brigg and Immingham 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, 2021-22

100 claims, £184,357 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	£142,055	77.1%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	55	£13,807	7.5%
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.	36	£23,814	12.9%
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.	7	£4,680	2.5%

Every year in the register

Martin Vickers’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	99	£57,920	£14,908	£15,105	£4,445	—	£92,378
2011-12	116	£93,679	£13,627	£18,346	£4,610	£18	£130,281
2012-13	134	£89,627	£15,865	£17,209	£5,484	—	£128,185
2013-14	164	£102,540	£10,151	£17,135	£4,849	—	£134,676
2014-15	123	£112,932	£11,106	£16,361	£5,083	—	£145,483
2015-16	111	£98,140	£11,389	£17,420	£4,333	—	£131,283
2016-17	103	£81,654	£10,995	£20,892	£5,647	—	£119,189
2017-18	115	£88,244	£15,648	£20,196	£2,900	—	£126,988
2018-19	157	£123,984	£10,989	£22,212	£5,323	—	£162,508
2019-20	120	£125,632	£12,534	£23,451	£5,046	£722	£167,385
2020-21	93	£143,071	£13,571	£23,754	£2,962	£49	£183,406
2021-22	100	£142,055	£13,807	£23,814	£4,680	—	£184,357
2022-23	111	£144,619	£17,127	£24,695	£7,781	£144	£194,366
2023-24	107	£151,115	£10,047	£26,801	£8,021	—	£195,984
2024-25	95	£163,874	£11,874	£27,836	£7,188	—	£210,772
2025-26	58	—	£8,068	£1,469	—	—	£9,537

A year in which Martin Vickers 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, 2021-22

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£139,067
Pooled staffing services	1	£2,988

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	1	£5,980
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,658
Software & applications	2	£1,200
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	8	£1,136
Bought-in services	1	£1,045
Mobile telephone - contract & usage	12	£997

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	12	£22,100
Council tax	2	£1,195
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	11	£310
Utilities	10	£209
MP Budget Overspend	1	£0

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	4	£4,148
Mileage - car	1	£432
Air travel	1	£70
Railcard	1	£30

Largest claims, 2021-22

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 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£139,067	£139,067
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£5,980	£5,980
5 May 2021	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£2,988	£2,988
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£2,688	£2,688
17 March 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
17 February 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
18 January 2022	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
21 December 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
18 November 2021	Accommodation	Rent	Rent	£1,842	£1,842
19 October 2021	Accommodation	Rent	Rent	£1,842	£1,842
21 September 2021	Accommodation	Rent	Rent	£1,842	£1,842
17 August 2021	Accommodation	Rent	Rent	£1,842	£1,842
20 July 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
17 June 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
18 May 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842

Claims refused and money repaid, 2021-22

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £524 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 Martin Vickers 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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