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How much did Neil Hudson spend last year?

by CWH
27 January 2022
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Penrith and The Border MP Neil Hudson cost the taxpayer around £176,000 last year, new figures reveal.

Figures from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority show the Conservative MP’s total business costs for the 2020-21 financial year were £175,801.14.

The MP’s costs were up from the year before, but well below the average for all Members of Parliament, of £203,880.

By comparison, Darren Henry, a fellow Tory MP for Broxtowe, had costs of £280,900 last year, while Philip Hollobone, the member for Kettering, had just £80,700.

Dr Hudson, who was elected in December 2019, spent £159,600 on office running costs in 2020-21, including £136,500 on staff wages and £23,100 on other office expenditures.

And he spent £15,300 of his accommodation budget (of £21,600), and a further £900 on travel and subsistence.

The total costs of MPs last year rose by four per cent, to £132.5 million, with almost £300,000 going on hotel claims for just 49 members.

Business costs are the essential costs incurred by MPs while carrying out their parliamentary duties including staffing, office costs and travel.

MPs cannot claim for personal costs, such as food and drink, during their normal working day, and all claims must be compliant with IPSA rules and accompanied by evidence.

IPSA’s chairman, Richard Lloyd, said compliance with the rules was at 99.7 per cent last year.

He added: “By far the largest area of spending is to pay for the salaries of MPs’ staff.

“In the last financial year MPs and their staff changed how they work to provide their constituents with a service during the pandemic.

“We enabled MPs’ staff to work from home, while the amount spent on parliamentary business travel fell to reflect different working patterns.”

The IPSA figures also reveal the 183 individual claims made by Dr Hudson in 2020-21, with the most expensive single claim being for staff payroll – £133,486.78.

At the other end of the scale, the smallest one-off expense he claimed was 23p for car mileage.

The average cost of an MP was up 29 per cent, from £158,103, in 2019-20.

Kit Malthouse was the most expensive MP attending the Cabinet in 2020-21, with total costs of £244,312.

This was compared to £178,406 for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and £168,109 for Sir Keir Starmer.

John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “It’s important MPs have the resources to do their jobs, but many taxpayers will be worried about the soaring cost of politics.

“The electorate expects politicians to stay grounded and keep costs under control, particularly given the Covid pandemic saw many MPs and their staff work from home.

“With taxpayers facing a cost of living crisis, politicians should be doing their utmost to keep their spending down.”

MPs’ costs are usually broken down into dozens of categories, with staff pay almost always the largest expense.

Neil Hudson’s five largest types of costs were:

1) Payroll – costing £133,486.78

2) Rent – £18,863.28

3) Pooled Staffing Services – £3,052.00

4) Utilities – £2,552.87

5) Recruitment Services and Costs – £2,388.00

He also spent £1,254.22 on a working from home allowance.

Dr Hudson said: “It is only right that the public get to see all MPs’ expenses, so they can see exactly where taxpayers’ money has been spent.  

“My expenditure is well within the parameters set by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA).  

“The majority of my Parliamentary costs were to cover staffing of my office.

“My staff do a fantastic job and help me serve my constituents to the best of my ability.

“The working from home allowance was not awarded to me personally but was provided by IPSA to my staff who understandably have had to work from home for significant periods during the pandemic.”

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