MPs’ business costs

Robert Jenrick

IPSA paid £2,294,387 against 1,095 published rows for Robert Jenrick between 2014-15 and 2025-26 as the member for Newark 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, 2018-19

69 claims, £190,543 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	£139,169	73.0%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	52	£20,322	10.7%
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.	14	£26,367	13.8%
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	£4,686	2.5%

Every year in the register

Robert Jenrick’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2014-15 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
2014-15	118	£88,402	£15,008	—	£319	—	£103,729
2015-16	242	£128,352	£21,013	£10,566	£4,648	—	£164,578
2016-17	114	£137,946	£22,641	£17,905	£6,461	—	£184,953
2017-18	69	£132,440	£23,238	£26,014	£4,999	—	£186,692
2018-19	69	£139,169	£20,322	£26,367	£4,686	—	£190,543
2019-20	94	£148,994	£18,250	£24,474	£2,497	—	£194,214
2020-21	63	£167,973	£12,456	£24,000	£263	—	£204,692
2021-22	51	£183,967	£14,284	£24,000	£3,053	—	£225,304
2022-23	84	£194,454	£23,198	£24,000	£4,204	—	£245,857
2023-24	89	£206,577	£21,988	£24,000	£2,915	—	£255,479
2024-25	79	£246,791	£21,959	£25,801	£2,805	£34,679	£332,034
2025-26	23	—	£6,310	—	—	—	£6,310

A year in which Robert Jenrick 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, 2018-19

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£136,069
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£3,100

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	12	£8,174
Advertising	3	£5,497
Website - Design/Production	1	£2,520
Stationery Purchase	17	£2,341
Computer SW Purchase	1	£900
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	12	£635

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	13	£24,000
Council Tax	1	£2,367

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£4,686

Largest claims, 2018-19

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 2019	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2018-19 year	£136,069	£136,069
31 March 2019	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2018-19	£4,686	£4,686
11 May 2018	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRU	£3,100	£3,100
15 February 2019	Office Costs	Advertising	Barclaycard February 2019	£2,888	£2,888
19 September 2018	Office Costs	Website - Design/Production	Sausage Dog Marketing	£2,520	£2,520
14 May 2018	Accommodation	Council Tax	May 2018 Barclaycard	£2,367	£2,367
14 February 2019	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
9 January 2019	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
6 December 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
8 November 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
6 October 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
6 September 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
8 August 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
11 July 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000
12 June 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,000	£2,000

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 Robert Jenrick 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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