MPs’ business costs
Samantha Dixon
IPSA paid £684,872 against 368 published rows for Samantha Dixon between 2022-23 and 2025-26 as the member for City of Chester CC, then Chester North and Neston 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
54 claims, £16,083 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. | 50 | £13,513 | 84.0% |
| 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. | 4 | £2,570 | 16.0% |
Every year in the register
Samantha Dixon’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2022-23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 59 | £49,587 | £8,824 | £6,022 | £2,863 | £67,295 |
| 2023-24 | 155 | £223,394 | £32,170 | £25,753 | £9,489 | £290,806 |
| 2024-25 | 100 | £246,680 | £26,182 | £29,252 | £8,572 | £310,687 |
| 2025-26 | 54 | — | £13,513 | £2,570 | — | £16,083 |
A year in which Samantha Dixon 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Service charge & ground Rent | 12 | £8,475 |
| Stationery & printing | 10 | £1,715 |
| Cleaning services | 12 | £1,020 |
| Software & applications | 1 | £738 |
| Advertising and contact cards | 1 | £600 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 9 | £473 |
Accommodation
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Council tax | 2 | £2,034 |
| Utilities | 2 | £536 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2025 | Accommodation | Council tax | WWW.WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK | £1,017 | £1,017 |
| 25 April 2025 | Accommodation | Council tax | WWW.WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK | £1,017 | £1,017 |
| 16 December 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £738 | £738 |
| 22 May 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | C. office svc chg portion of June rent inv | £706 | £706 |
| 24 April 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | C. office svc chg May 2025 inv | £706 | £706 |
| 2 April 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Bct c office svc chg part of Apr rent inv | £706 | £706 |
| 27 February 2026 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Constit office svc portion of March rent | £706 | £706 |
| 26 January 2026 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Constit office svc chg portion of Feb 2026 rent | £706 | £706 |
| 5 December 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Constit office svc chg portion of Dec 2025 rent inv | £706 | £706 |
| 5 December 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Constit office svc chg portion of Jan 2026 rent inv | £706 | £706 |
| 24 October 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Constit office svc chg portion of Nov 2025 rent inv | £706 | £706 |
| 25 September 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Constit office- svc chg Oct inv | £706 | £706 |
| 11 August 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Constit office- svc chg portion of Sept 2025 rent inv | £706 | £706 |
| 24 July 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Constituency office svc chg portion of Aug rent inv | £706 | £706 |
| 23 June 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Svc chg portion of July office rent | £706 | £706 |
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 Samantha Dixon 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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