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, 2016-17

160 claims, £171,209 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.	89	£120,073	70.1%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	55	£20,644	12.1%
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.	15	£18,742	10.9%
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.	1	£11,749	6.9%

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, 2016-17

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£114,921
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£4,800
Own Vehicle Car Volunteer	87	£352

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	18	£9,355
Furniture Purchase	3	£6,077
Stationery Purchase	12	£1,805
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	15	£1,424
Computer HW Purchase	2	£933
Professional Services	1	£720

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	15	£18,742

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£11,749

Largest claims, 2016-17

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 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£114,921	£114,921
31 March 2017	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2016-17	£11,749	£11,749
29 April 2016	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRS	£4,800	£4,800
16 August 2016	Office Costs	Furniture Purchase	Payment Card August 2016	£2,893	£2,893
17 August 2016	Office Costs	Furniture Purchase	Payment Card August 2016	£2,893	£2,893
4 November 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£2,104	£2,104
11 February 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,710	£1,710
11 January 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,710	£1,710
9 December 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,710	£1,710
10 November 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,710	£1,710
11 October 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,710	£1,710
6 September 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,710	£1,710
9 August 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,710	£1,710
12 July 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,710	£1,710
7 June 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,710	£1,710

Claims refused and money repaid, 2016-17

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £94 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 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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