MPs’ business costs

Tom Tugendhat

IPSA paid £2,184,622 against 1,032 published rows for Tom Tugendhat between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Tonbridge and Malling CC, then Tonbridge 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

62 claims, £23,621 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.	53	£20,516	86.9%
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.	9	£3,105	13.1%

Every year in the register

Tom Tugendhat’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2015-16 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	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2015-16	67	£107,268	£11,436	£15,063	£2,728	£5,989	—	£142,484
2016-17	142	£134,516	£16,710	£5,426	£4,559	—	—	£161,212
2017-18	123	£125,448	£16,474	£23,264	£5,421	—	—	£170,606
2018-19	104	£136,070	£20,275	£23,017	£5,395	—	—	£184,757
2019-20	108	£155,112	£24,706	£26,227	£4,459	—	—	£210,505
2020-21	101	£176,600	£22,325	£20,975	£831	—	—	£220,732
2021-22	64	£189,908	£20,602	£25,375	—	—	£8,314	£244,199
2022-23	75	£201,694	£12,506	£28,800	£2,739	—	£19,425	£265,163
2023-24	87	£211,172	£25,975	£30,790	£6,192	—	—	£274,129
2024-25	99	£224,204	£24,770	£33,296	£4,943	—	—	£287,214
2025-26	62	—	£20,516	£3,105	—	—	—	£23,621

A year in which Tom Tugendhat 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
Stationery & printing	12	£6,259
Software & applications	21	£5,624
Business rates	2	£3,293
Utilities	4	£2,386
Postage & couriers	1	£1,582
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	10	£941

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council tax	9	£3,105

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
16 March 2026	Office Costs	Business rates	Constituency Office Business Rates	£1,879	£1,879
2 June 2025	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	Printing and distribution costs for leaflet about consultation on a Tonbridge Town Council	£1,582	£1,582
15 February 2026	Office Costs	Software & applications	Caseworker software annual invoice	£1,476	£1,476
16 March 2026	Office Costs	Business rates	Constituency Office Business Rates	£1,414	£1,414
16 March 2026	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£1,344	£1,344
26 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printer cartridges for constituency office printer	£1,054	£1,054
17 November 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing costs for letters to constituents about Council Local Plan consultation	£966	£966
19 September 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printer cartridges for Constituency Office printer	£905	£905
18 November 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing costs for 2025 Christmas Cards	£667	£667
10 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	New Ash Green Regeneration leaflet invoice	£600	£600
17 February 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Invoice for printing and distribution of Edenbridge leisure facilities leaflet	£600	£600
31 March 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ChatGPT for the team	£580	£580
4 June 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	Additional pro-rata fee for Caseworker software for system upgrade	£540	£540
31 December 2025	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£528	£528
28 October 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing for letters sent to residents about the Sevenoaks District Council Local Plan consultation	£421	£421

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 £146 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 Tom Tugendhat 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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