MPs’ business costs

Rosie Duffield

IPSA paid £1,765,838 against 802 published rows for Rosie Duffield between 2017-18 and 2025-26 as the member for Canterbury 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, 2021-22

105 claims, £210,749 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	£151,442	71.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	91	£28,036	13.3%
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.	1	£23,290	11.1%
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.	8	£2,558	1.2%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	3	£5,423	2.6%

Every year in the register

Rosie Duffield’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2017-18 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
2017-18	99	£96,326	£25,052	£21,308	£3,432	—	£146,118
2018-19	87	£152,296	£24,880	£28,285	£6,921	—	£212,382
2019-20	113	£141,030	£27,968	£25,646	£4,318	—	£198,962
2020-21	74	£168,377	£32,118	£28,355	£333	—	£229,183
2021-22	105	£151,442	£28,036	£23,290	£2,558	£5,423	£210,749
2022-23	90	£187,824	£25,461	£23,053	£3,038	—	£239,376
2023-24	99	£200,871	£27,762	£26,840	£3,868	—	£259,341
2024-25	84	£201,595	£19,616	£29,290	£3,164	—	£253,664
2025-26	51	£2,001	£14,062	—	—	—	£16,063

A year in which Rosie Duffield 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, 2021-22

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£147,242
Pooled staffing services	1	£4,200

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	13	£13,296
Bought-in services	13	£7,944
Business rates	4	£1,752
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,530
Software & applications	2	£984
Equipment - purchase	17	£701

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	1	£23,290

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	2	£1,578
Rail	3	£878
Taxi	2	£96
Parking	1	£6

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	1	£4,683
Removals	2	£740

Largest claims, 2021-22

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 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£147,242	£147,242
31 March 2022	Accommodation	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£23,290	£23,290
31 March 2022	Miscellaneous	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£4,683	£4,683
27 April 2021	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£4,200	£4,200
4 May 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,794	£1,794
6 April 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,794	£1,794
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£1,539	£1,539
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£1,530	£1,530
29 November 2021	Office Costs	Business rates	CANTERBURY CITY T/TPAY	£1,523	£1,523
7 April 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£971	£971
1 March 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£971	£971
1 February 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£971	£971
4 January 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£971	£971
2 December 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£971	£971
2 November 2021	Office Costs	Rent	Rent	£971	£971

Claims refused and money repaid, 2021-22

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £2,799 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 Rosie Duffield 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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