MPs’ business costs

Mary Glindon

IPSA paid £2,536,685 against 1,438 published rows for Mary Glindon between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for North Tyneside BC, then Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend 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, 2014-15

81 claims, £160,763 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	£116,613	72.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	61	£14,645	9.1%
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.	17	£19,592	12.2%
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	£9,913	6.2%

Every year in the register

Mary Glindon’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	63	£65,877	£12,015	£18,184	£6,222	—	£102,299
2011-12	68	£88,916	£16,285	£20,492	£8,250	£70	£134,013
2012-13	99	£95,537	£16,226	£20,020	£9,585	—	£141,367
2013-14	95	£113,864	£17,423	£17,473	£10,881	—	£159,642
2014-15	81	£116,613	£14,645	£19,592	£9,913	—	£160,763
2015-16	74	£107,546	£14,601	£19,782	£11,839	—	£153,768
2016-17	160	£120,073	£20,644	£18,742	£11,749	—	£171,209
2017-18	145	£123,312	£9,880	£22,463	£10,105	—	£165,760
2018-19	78	£113,497	£16,613	£22,760	£11,142	—	£164,012
2019-20	130	£114,427	£14,319	£20,846	£9,382	—	£158,974
2020-21	78	£125,733	£16,331	£1,895	£337	—	£144,297
2021-22	73	£118,967	£21,776	£7,531	£11,676	—	£159,949
2022-23	87	£134,356	£15,258	£27,265	£15,568	—	£192,446
2023-24	72	£149,067	£18,743	£23,638	£18,632	—	£210,080
2024-25	78	£217,193	£24,550	£29,230	£24,909	—	£295,881
2025-26	57	—	£13,555	£8,671	—	—	£22,226

A year in which Mary Glindon 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, 2014-15

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£111,813
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£4,800

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	12	£9,533
Stationery Purchase	20	£1,635
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	6	£914
Legal Exp/Emp Practice Insur.	2	£613
Postage Purchase	7	£436
Professional Services	3	£325

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	10	£15,542
Interim Hotel London Area	6	£2,100
Ground Rent	1	£1,950

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£9,913

Largest claims, 2014-15

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 2015	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2014-15 year	£111,813	£111,813
31 March 2015	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2014-15	£9,913	£9,913
9 June 2014	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRS subscription	£4,800	£4,800
19 May 2014	Accommodation	Ground Rent	inital month's rent new flat	£1,950	£1,950
13 February 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
13 January 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
9 December 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
13 November 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	[***]	£1,650	£1,650
9 October 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	[***]	£1,650	£1,650
10 September 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	[***]	£1,650	£1,650
9 August 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	[***]	£1,650	£1,650
9 July 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
11 June 2014	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,650	£1,650
27 February 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£794	£794
28 January 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£794	£794

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 Mary Glindon 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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