MPs’ business costs

Dr Roz Savage

IPSA paid £254,838 against 206 published rows for Dr Roz Savage between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for South Cotswolds 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

52 claims, £20,351 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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£6,07029.8%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.40£11,62157.1%
AccommodationThe 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.10£2,66013.1%

Every year in the register

Dr Roz Savage’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelTotal
2024-25154£182,232£26,478£19,390£6,387£234,487
2025-2652£6,070£11,621£2,660£20,351

A year in which Dr Roz Savage 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.

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Bought-in services2£6,070

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Software & applications4£3,383
Bought-in services5£2,751
Training - MP3£1,580
Stationery & printing6£1,456
Training - staff2£834
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage7£511

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Council tax1£1,791
Utilities9£868

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
17 December 2025StaffingBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£6,000£6,000
9 September 2025AccommodationCouncil taxCouncil tax charge for London accommodation.£1,791£1,791
16 June 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
28 March 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsASANA.COM [200011726-7861] [200011800-213]£1,329£1,329
27 March 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£938£938
17 March 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
10 February 2025Office CostsTraining - staffPARLI-TRAINING [200011800-210]£614£614
19 March 2026Office CostsStationery & printingBanner March 2026£600£600
16 March 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£563£563
25 February 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£550£550
30 May 2025Office CostsTraining - MPMP political skills training£540£540
28 April 2025Office CostsTraining - MP1st month of a 3 month training package for MP on political skills, communication and messaging£540£540
7 July 2025Office CostsTraining - MPInvoice for training package instalment£500£500
29 July 2024Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011800-212]£422£422
28 January 2026Office CostsTraining - staffHotel stay for training£220£220

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £100 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 Dr Roz Savage 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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