MP expenses

Read this before drawing conclusions. These are legitimate business costs of doing the job (office rent, staff salaries, travel between constituency and Westminster), not personal income or a scandal by default — a higher total often just reflects a bigger staff, a rural or distant constituency with higher travel and accommodation costs, or a Cabinet/shadow role with extra running costs. Figures shown are amount paid, not amount claimed — a claim can be reduced or rejected (IPSA publishes why, where that happened). Some categories — every MP Travel, Staff Travel, and Dependant Travel claim, plus some MPs’ rent and hotel claims — are published by IPSA as one whole-year total rather than itemised by date, marked “Aggregated” below; this is IPSA’s own security practice for anything that would reveal an MP’s individual travel dates or home address, not something Hear, Hear has chosen to hide. Data is loaded from IPSA’s own published files roughly every two months, so “up to date” means up to whichever publication is listed above, not today.