Refused & repaid: when IPSA says no

Every MP claim IPSA refused, every amount MPs had to repay, and why. Sourced from IPSA’s published individual business-cost data; updated as IPSA publishes new tranches each quarter.

Total refused

£67,499

160 claims

Total repaid

£621,854

1,761 claims

Distinct MPs affected

586

with at least one refused or repaid claim

Distinct refusal reasons

3

IPSA's recorded categories

Why IPSA refused

Reason	Claims	Total refused
Not claimable	143	£57,399
Late submission	6	£7,793
Insufficient evidence	11	£2,307

Most refused, by MP

#	MP	Party	Claims	Total refused
1	Lisa Smart	Liberal Democrat	1	£7,155
2	Bim Afolami	—	2	£7,071
3	Steven Bonnar	—	1	£5,160
4	Matthew Hancock	—	2	£3,840
5	Ann Davies	Plaid Cymru	1	£3,795
6	Rachel Maclean	—	2	£3,128
7	John McDonnell	Labour	1	£3,000
8	Chris Loder	—	2	£2,760
9	Kate Osamor	Labour (Co-op)	3	£2,710
10	Chris Webb	Labour	1	£2,100
11	Mick Whitley	—	1	£1,595
12	Anneliese Dodds	Labour (Co-op)	2	£1,590
13	David Morris	—	4	£1,564
14	Guy Opperman	—	1	£1,520
15	Richard Bacon	—	25	£1,369
16	Jim Shannon	Democratic Unionist Party	1	£1,030
17	Patrick Hurley	Labour	1	£1,000
18	Andrew Griffith	Conservative	1	£875
19	Anna Turley	Labour (Co-op)	2	£865
20	Imran Hussain	Labour	1	£841
21	Gurinder Singh Josan	Labour	1	£823
22	Dan Aldridge	Labour	2	£817
23	Flick Drummond	—	1	£600
24	Steve Darling	Liberal Democrat	1	£597
25	Sarah Dines	—	3	£521

Most repaid, by MP

Repaid ≠ refused: a repayment is money the MP did receive but then returned, either voluntarily or after IPSA review.

#	MP	Party	Claims	Total repaid
1	Andrew Griffith	Conservative	14	£13,902
2	Sarah Dyke	Liberal Democrat	42	£12,540
3	Munira Wilson	Liberal Democrat	60	£12,456
4	Adam Dance	Liberal Democrat	11	£11,900
5	Marcus Fysh	—	13	£11,798
6	Bim Afolami	—	3	£9,681
7	Sarah Pochin	Reform UK	2	£9,450
8	David Simmonds	Conservative	3	£9,116
9	Wes Streeting	Labour	14	£8,632
10	Nick Thomas-Symonds	Labour	3	£8,582
11	Melanie Ward	Labour	5	£8,380
12	Jacob Collier	Labour	3	£7,579
13	Ian Byrne	Labour	1	£6,825
14	Mr Andrew Snowden	Conservative	17	£6,703
15	Alok Sharma	—	16	£6,626
16	Amanda Hack	Labour	2	£6,623
17	Bob Blackman	Conservative	2	£6,500
18	Mark Jenkinson	—	11	£6,486
19	Angela Crawley	—	7	£6,166
20	Natalie Fleet	Labour	4	£5,704
21	Steve Reed	Labour (Co-op)	4	£5,679
22	Dame Siobhain McDonagh	Labour	5	£5,672
23	Julie Elliott	—	4	£5,514
24	Rachel Gilmour	Liberal Democrat	5	£5,455
25	Helen Maguire	Liberal Democrat	15	£5,373

Source: IPSA individualBusinessCosts dataset, fields amount_not_paid + amount_repaid + reason_if_not_paid. Aggregates exclude unmapped rows where the MP’s parliamentary identifier did not resolve to a current member record.