MPs’ business costs

Olly Glover

IPSA paid £163,911 against 145 published rows for Olly Glover between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Didcot and Wantage 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, 2025-26

67 claims, £9,886 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
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	42	£7,399	74.8%
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.	25	£2,487	25.2%

Every year in the register

Olly Glover’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	78	£139,648	£10,761	£517	£3,098	£154,024
2025-26	67	—	£7,399	£2,487	—	£9,886

A year in which Olly Glover 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.

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	20	£2,008
Software & applications	1	£1,476
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	1	£1,387
Equipment - purchase	2	£1,021
Stationery & printing	7	£768
Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	3	£439

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	25	£2,487

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
16 June 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
9 May 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Not Applicable	£1,387	£1,387
4 April 2025	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£1,008	£1,008
24 June 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Office furniture	£828	£828
16 January 2026	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£300	£300
16 June 2025	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	Set up fee for office	£300	£300
22 August 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing of Pull-Up Banners for Surgeries and events	£259	£259
2 December 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	Working late in parliament	£257	£257
21 July 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£193	£193
30 September 2025	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£192	£192
28 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	Working late in parliament	£178	£178
18 February 2026	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£173	£173
28 August 2025	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£168	£168
8 April 2025	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£161	£161
18 February 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2026	£158	£158

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

7 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £1,834 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 Olly Glover 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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