MPs’ business costs

Sir Roger Gale

IPSA paid £2,678,238 against 2,113 published rows for Sir Roger Gale between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for North Thanet CC, then Herne Bay and Sandwich 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

84 claims, £16,878 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.	76	£16,043	95.1%
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.	8	£835	4.9%

Every year in the register

Sir Roger Gale’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	121	£85,056	£20,276	£4,478	£4,343	—	£114,154
2011-12	160	£108,318	£20,969	£5,074	£5,629	£66	£140,057
2012-13	152	£116,580	£22,356	£4,821	£5,408	—	£149,166
2013-14	117	£123,800	£18,402	£5,327	£5,787	—	£153,317
2014-15	127	£123,622	£20,364	£4,882	£5,551	—	£154,419
2015-16	129	£127,260	£20,614	£5,740	£5,195	—	£158,809
2016-17	128	£135,651	£22,149	£4,768	£5,601	—	£168,169
2017-18	126	£138,607	£18,419	£8,164	£4,386	—	£169,576
2018-19	150	£149,243	£23,799	£7,703	£5,593	—	£186,338
2019-20	151	£162,287	£22,454	£7,981	£5,400	—	£198,122
2020-21	127	£174,107	£24,712	£7,309	£15	—	£206,142
2021-22	132	£155,923	£23,921	£7,737	£3,939	—	£191,520
2022-23	128	£161,807	£24,923	£7,928	£6,324	—	£200,983
2023-24	144	£187,067	£24,817	£8,074	£7,076	—	£227,034
2024-25	137	£205,549	£22,931	£7,848	£7,228	—	£243,556
2025-26	84	—	£16,043	£835	—	—	£16,878

A year in which Sir Roger Gale 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
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	19	£4,340
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	2	£2,206
Mobile telephone - contract & usage	12	£1,886
Utilities	10	£1,759
Stationery & printing	16	£1,742
Website hosting and design	3	£997

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Utilities	8	£835

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
19 January 2026	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	Constituency Office Repairs and Redecoration	£1,293	£1,293
7 February 2026	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	Constituency Office redecoration and repairs	£913	£913
28 January 2026	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£813	£813
28 October 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£748	£748
28 April 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£732	£732
28 July 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£724	£724
31 January 2026	Office Costs	Website hosting and design	Website Hosting & Design for www.rogergale,com	£402	£402
30 September 2025	Office Costs	Insurance - buildings	3/4 Share of Constituency Office Buildings Insurance	£368	£368
2 November 2025	Office Costs	Website hosting and design	Website Hosting & Design for www.rogergale.com	£356	£356
31 March 2025	Office Costs	Utilities	Gas	£353	£353
8 December 2025	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	Postage for Christmas greetings to local businesses and organisations	£323	£323
14 July 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	Computer Software for Remote Access	£301	£301
1 April 2025	Accommodation	Utilities	Water	£301	£301
18 August 2025	Office Costs	Parking	—	£300	£300
4 July 2025	Office Costs	Utilities	Gas	£299	£299

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 Sir Roger Gale 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Sir Roger Gale’s register of interests and votes · Sources