The Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2019

Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 1454

Representation Of The People

The Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2019

Made

4th November 2019

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(1)

The Minister for the Cabinet Office makes the following Order, with the consent of the Treasury(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 29(3), (3A) and (4C) of the Representation of the People Act 1983(2) and now vested in the Minister for the Cabinet Office(3).

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2019 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(2) This Order extends to England and Wales and Scotland, except article 4(2)(o) which extends to Scotland only.

Revocation

2.  The Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) (No. 2) Order 2017(4) is revoked.

Returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified services

3.—(1) The maximum recoverable amount in respect of the specified services for each constituency is the amount listed in the corresponding entry in column 2 of the table in the Schedule.

(2) The specified services are—

(a) making arrangements for the parliamentary election;

(b) discharging the returning officer’s duties at the parliamentary election.

Returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses

4.—(1) The maximum recoverable amount in respect of the specified expenses for each constituency is the amount listed in the corresponding entry in column 3 of the table in the Schedule.

(2) The specified expenses are those incurred in—

(a) the appointment and payment of persons to assist the returning officer;

(b) travel and overnight subsistence for the returning officer and any person appointed to assist the returning officer;

(c) undertaking the nomination process;

(d) printing or otherwise producing the ballot papers;

(e) printing or otherwise producing or purchasing postal vote stationery;

(f) printing or otherwise producing and arranging for the delivery of poll cards;

(g) printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate, publishing notices and any other documents required by any enactment or instrument for or in connection with the parliamentary election;

(h) renting, heating, lighting, cleaning, adapting or restoring any building or room;

(i) providing and transporting equipment;

(j) providing information and communications technology, equipment and software, and associated costs;

(k) providing security, including secure storage or ballot boxes, ballot papers and verification documents;

(l) conducting the verification and the count;

(m) providing and receiving training;

(n) providing stationery; and meeting postage, telephone, printing, translation and banking costs and the costs of other miscellaneous items; and

(o) in a constituency in Scotland, the supply of copies of the register of electors for use in the conduct of the parliamentary election.

Returning officers: overall maximum recoverable amount

5.  The overall maximum recoverable amount for each constituency is the amount listed in the corresponding entry in column 4 of the table in the Schedule.

Overall maximum recoverable amount at an uncontested parliamentary election

6.  At an uncontested parliamentary election—

(a) articles 3 to 5 do not apply; and

(b) the overall maximum recoverable amount for each constituency is £1,750.

Oliver Dowden

Paymaster General & Minister for the Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office

4th November 2019

We consent to this Order

Michelle Donelan

Colin Clark

Two of the Lord Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

4th November 2019

Articles 3(1), 4(1) and 5

SCHEDULE Overall maximum recoverable amounts and maximum recoverable amounts for specified services and specified expenses for each constituency where a parliamentary election is a standalone poll

1 Constituency	2 Maximum recoverable amount for the specified services	3 Maximum recoverable amount for the specified expenses	4 Overall maximum recoverable amount
Aberavon	£2,500	£135,553	£138,053
Aberconwy	£2,500	£96,928	£99,428
Aberdeen North	£2,988	£207,300	£210,288
Aberdeen South	£3,124	£208,064	£211,188
Airdrie and Shotts	£3,085	£215,943	£219,028
Aldershot	£3,664	£145,798	£149,463
Aldridge-Brownhills	£2,903	£115,427	£118,330
Altrincham and Sale West	£3,521	£186,044	£189,565
Alyn and Deeside	£3,030	£117,654	£120,684
Amber Valley	£3,273	£159,928	£163,201
Angus	£3,070	£185,704	£188,774
Arfon	£2,500	£81,212	£83,712
Argyll and Bute	£3,233	£269,200	£272,433
Arundel and South Downs	£3,822	£152,164	£155,986
Ashfield	£3,754	£187,309	£191,064
Ashford	£4,202	£198,235	£202,437
Ashton-under-Lyne	£3,254	£128,765	£132,019
Aylesbury	£3,969	£163,198	£167,167
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	£3,426	£189,944	£193,369
Banbury	£4,031	£244,761	£248,792
Banff and Buchan	£3,251	£168,495	£171,746
Barking	£3,704	£186,386	£190,090
Barnsley Central	£3,087	£168,383	£171,470
Barnsley East	£3,328	£162,099	£165,427
Barrow and Furness	£3,341	£131,527	£134,868
Basildon and Billericay	£3,325	£122,725	£126,050
Basingstoke	£3,937	£170,102	£174,039
Bassetlaw	£3,777	£192,366	£196,143
Bath	£3,211	£151,731	£154,942
Batley and Spen	£3,855	£172,373	£176,228
Battersea	£3,730	£200,971	£204,701
Beaconsfield	£3,728	£136,545	£140,273
Beckenham	£3,266	£192,302	£195,568
Bedford	£3,454	£172,026	£175,480
Bermondsey and Old Southwark	£4,196	£289,061	£293,257
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk	£3,519	£201,932	£205,450
Berwick-upon-Tweed	£2,844	£142,341	£145,185
Bethnal Green and Bow	£4,139	£237,397	£241,536
Beverley and Holderness	£3,879	£150,643	£154,522
Bexhill and Battle	£3,911	£171,936	£175,847
Bexleyheath and Crayford	£3,141	£224,640	£227,780
Birkenhead	£3,101	£111,101	£114,202
Birmingham, Edgbaston	£3,274	£144,158	£147,433
Birmingham, Erdington	£3,129	£135,311	£138,440
Birmingham, Hall Green	£3,764	£144,908	£148,672
Birmingham, Hodge Hill	£3,640	£142,341	£145,981
Birmingham, Ladywood	£3,367	£144,182	£147,549
Birmingham, Northfield	£3,478	£146,597	£150,074
Birmingham, Perry Barr	£3,371	£146,117	£149,488
Birmingham, Selly Oak	£3,576	£142,415	£145,991
Birmingham, Yardley	£3,490	£140,997	£144,487
Bishop Auckland	£3,254	£143,845	£147,098
Blackburn	£3,398	£155,993	£159,391
Blackley and Broughton	£3,445	£202,617	£206,062
Blackpool North and Cleveleys	£3,076	£164,265	£167,341
Blackpool South	£2,812	£135,232	£138,043
Blaenau Gwent	£2,500	£111,746	£114,246
Blaydon	£3,292	£128,164	£131,456
Blyth Valley	£3,050	£117,212	£120,262
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	£3,646	£130,012	£133,659
Bolsover	£3,531	£193,168	£196,699
Bolton North East	£3,233	£106,860	£110,093
Bolton South East	£3,313	£107,156	£110,469
Bolton West	£3,501	£110,215	£113,716
Bootle	£3,504	£168,157	£171,661
Boston and Skegness	£3,289	£149,694	£152,983
Bosworth	£3,877	£153,687	£157,564
Bournemouth East	£3,587	£165,612	£169,199
Bournemouth West	£3,520	£167,168	£170,688
Bracknell	£3,808	£201,505	£205,314
Bradford East	£3,385	£150,296	£153,681
Bradford South	£3,258	£149,344	£152,602
Bradford West	£3,258	£146,941	£150,200
Braintree	£3,622	£158,191	£161,812
Brecon and Radnorshire	£2,693	£144,028	£146,721
Brent Central	£3,871	£213,015	£216,886
Brent North	£3,970	£218,632	£222,603
Brentford and Isleworth	£4,095	£225,673	£229,768
Brentwood and Ongar	£3,610	£154,175	£157,785
Bridgend	£2,990	£120,983	£123,973
Bridgwater and West Somerset	£4,035	£192,802	£196,837
Brigg and Goole	£3,177	£136,942	£140,119
Brighton, Kemptown	£3,265	£156,953	£160,218
Brighton, Pavilion	£3,630	£168,303	£171,933
Bristol East	£3,482	£179,572	£183,054
Bristol North West	£3,627	£166,115	£169,743
Bristol South	£3,992	£179,196	£183,188
Bristol West	£4,472	£208,170	£212,643
Broadland	£3,719	£181,886	£185,604
Bromley and Chislehurst	£3,131	£189,447	£192,578
Bromsgrove	£3,527	£165,386	£168,913
Broxbourne	£3,534	£132,042	£135,576
Broxtowe	£3,559	£164,895	£168,454
Buckingham	£3,828	£181,646	£185,474
Burnley	£3,112	£130,957	£134,069
Burton	£3,556	£169,505	£173,061
Bury North	£3,250	£114,974	£118,224
Bury South	£3,545	£125,637	£129,182
Bury St Edmunds	£4,139	£175,681	£179,820
Caerphilly	£3,096	£117,792	£120,888
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	£2,500	£122,052	£124,552
Calder Valley	£3,801	£191,066	£194,867
Camberwell and Peckham	£4,117	£253,370	£257,487
Camborne and Redruth	£3,290	£151,981	£155,271
Cambridge	£3,776	£116,654	£120,430
Cannock Chase	£3,584	£156,430	£160,014
Canterbury	£3,760	£145,772	£149,531
Cardiff Central	£2,851	£148,235	£151,086
Cardiff North	£3,232	£179,134	£182,366
Cardiff South and Penarth	£3,679	£194,870	£198,549
Cardiff West	£3,211	£172,139	£175,350
Carlisle	£2,996	£181,006	£184,001
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	£2,727	£170,151	£172,878
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire	£2,816	£169,311	£172,128
Carshalton and Wallington	£3,407	£176,836	£180,242
Castle Point	£3,341	£100,348	£103,689
Central Ayrshire	£3,318	£158,321	£161,639
Central Devon	£3,576	£197,386	£200,962
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich	£3,756	£164,794	£168,551
Ceredigion	£2,543	£145,520	£148,063
Charnwood	£3,754	£123,994	£127,748
Chatham and Aylesford	£3,386	£163,674	£167,060
Cheadle	£3,530	£159,750	£163,280
Chelmsford	£3,897	£149,011	£152,908
Chelsea and Fulham	£3,065	£222,015	£225,080
Cheltenham	£3,786	£171,317	£175,102
Chesham and Amersham	£3,446	£155,933	£159,379
Chesterfield	£3,466	£145,858	£149,323
Chichester	£4,087	£164,600	£168,687
Chingford and Woodford Green	£3,172	£169,890	£173,062
Chippenham	£3,675	£198,572	£202,247
Chipping Barnet	£3,673	£202,525	£206,198
Chorley	£3,674	£172,421	£176,095
Christchurch	£3,381	£146,383	£149,764
Cities of London and Westminster	£2,959	£245,504	£248,462
City of Chester	£3,504	£178,315	£181,818
City of Durham	£3,421	£127,676	£131,097
Clacton	£3,297	£133,716	£137,013
Cleethorpes	£3,513	£168,514	£172,026
Clwyd South	£2,609	£114,794	£117,403
Clwyd West	£2,802	£132,313	£135,115
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill	£3,424	£219,865	£223,289
Colchester	£3,847	£169,749	£173,596
Colne Valley	£4,058	£177,021	£181,079
Congleton	£3,688	£212,057	£215,745
Copeland	£2,969	£172,960	£175,930
Corby	£3,992	£191,172	£195,164
Coventry North East	£3,643	£173,250	£176,893
Coventry North West	£3,616	£166,206	£169,822
Coventry South	£3,401	£163,681	£167,083
Crawley	£3,531	£137,313	£140,844
Crewe and Nantwich	£3,794	£215,933	£219,727
Croydon Central	£3,849	£217,797	£221,646
Croydon North	£4,206	£226,371	£230,577
Croydon South	£4,016	£227,114	£231,130
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East	£3,200	£214,374	£217,575
Cynon Valley	£2,500	£112,332	£114,832
Dagenham and Rainham	£3,396	£174,884	£178,280
Darlington	£3,190	£118,844	£122,035
Dartford	£3,726	£200,484	£204,211
Daventry	£3,619	£193,858	£197,478
Delyn	£2,601	£119,942	£122,544
Denton and Reddish	£3,162	£126,888	£130,050
Derby North	£3,362	£153,602	£156,964
Derby South	£3,362	£156,738	£160,100
Derbyshire Dales	£3,098	£165,635	£168,733
Devizes	£3,471	£182,537	£186,009
Dewsbury	£3,912	£173,031	£176,943
Don Valley	£3,558	£164,107	£167,665
Doncaster Central	£3,449	£158,809	£162,258
Doncaster North	£3,480	£165,540	£169,020
Dover	£3,586	£165,791	£169,376
Dudley North	£2,983	£126,722	£129,705
Dudley South	£2,949	£107,469	£110,418
Dulwich and West Norwood	£3,753	£216,784	£220,536
Dumfries and Galloway	£3,568	£194,482	£198,051
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	£3,254	£238,088	£241,342
Dundee East	£3,167	£142,562	£145,729
Dundee West	£3,012	£135,469	£138,481
Dunfermline and West Fife	£3,639	£181,189	£184,828
Dwyfor Meirionnydd	£2,500	£105,232	£107,732
Ealing Central and Acton	£3,568	£302,994	£306,562
Ealing North	£3,595	£307,963	£311,558
Ealing, Southall	£3,135	£256,027	£259,162
Easington	£3,000	£116,907	£119,907
East Devon	£3,961	£148,802	£152,762
East Dunbartonshire	£3,188	£144,240	£147,428
East Ham	£4,036	£219,204	£223,240
East Hampshire	£3,566	£183,441	£187,006
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow	£3,868	£208,841	£212,709
East Lothian	£3,803	£174,719	£178,523
East Renfrewshire	£3,370	£183,045	£186,415
East Surrey	£3,847	£160,144	£163,991
East Worthing and Shoreham	£3,632	£123,963	£127,595
East Yorkshire	£3,898	£142,502	£146,400
Eastbourne	£3,787	£157,039	£160,826
Eastleigh	£3,905	£184,883	£188,788
Eddisbury	£3,379	£187,406	£190,785
Edinburgh East	£3,169	£212,899	£216,067
Edinburgh North and Leith	£3,822	£265,782	£269,604
Edinburgh South	£3,104	£212,957	£216,061
Edinburgh South West	£3,423	£232,223	£235,646
Edinburgh West	£3,438	£239,104	£242,542
Edmonton	£3,159	£165,995	£169,154
Ellesmere Port and Neston	£3,302	£158,750	£162,052
Elmet and Rothwell	£3,861	£217,395	£221,255
Eltham	£3,100	£206,901	£210,002
Enfield North	£3,292	£178,771	£182,063
Enfield, Southgate	£3,132	£165,988	£169,120
Epping Forest	£3,594	£171,175	£174,769
Epsom and Ewell	£3,848	£204,975	£208,823
Erewash	£3,510	£149,939	£153,449
Erith and Thamesmead	£3,353	£219,162	£222,515
Esher and Walton	£3,892	£216,608	£220,500
Exeter	£3,719	£164,957	£168,676
Falkirk	£3,955	£197,801	£201,756
Fareham	£3,791	£131,896	£135,687
Faversham and Mid Kent	£3,472	£163,846	£167,318
Feltham and Heston	£3,929	£212,133	£216,062
Filton and Bradley Stoke	£3,485	£139,303	£142,789
Finchley and Golders Green	£3,518	£197,570	£201,088
Folkestone and Hythe	£4,149	£195,217	£199,366
Forest of Dean	£3,409	£154,865	£158,275
Fylde	£3,171	£143,395	£146,565
Gainsborough	£3,649	£181,796	£185,445
Garston and Halewood	£3,618	£140,592	£144,211
Gateshead	£3,135	£120,122	£123,257
Gedling	£3,425	£156,805	£160,230
Gillingham and Rainham	£3,506	£146,590	£150,096
Glasgow Central	£3,094	£171,956	£175,050
Glasgow East	£3,185	£186,527	£189,712
Glasgow North	£2,686	£137,868	£140,554
Glasgow North East	£2,882	£173,917	£176,799
Glasgow North West	£3,067	£175,314	£178,381
Glasgow South	£3,324	£180,693	£184,017
Glasgow South West	£3,029	£177,544	£180,573
Glenrothes	£3,192	£173,625	£176,817
Gloucester	£3,990	£150,556	£154,545
Gordon	£3,776	£195,549	£199,326
Gosport	£3,566	£136,812	£140,378
Gower	£2,986	£121,858	£124,844
Grantham and Stamford	£3,931	£181,744	£185,675
Gravesham	£3,508	£164,065	£167,573
Great Grimsby	£2,969	£147,663	£150,632
Great Yarmouth	£3,434	£132,674	£136,108
Greenwich and Woolwich	£3,712	£218,195	£221,907
Guildford	£3,621	£202,717	£206,337
Hackney North and Stoke Newington	£4,090	£315,785	£319,875
Hackney South and Shoreditch	£3,996	£315,251	£319,247
Halesowen and Rowley Regis	£3,211	£116,827	£120,037
Halifax	£3,425	£158,066	£161,491
Haltemprice and Howden	£3,439	£133,835	£137,274
Halton	£3,549	£146,546	£150,096
Hammersmith	£3,501	£216,158	£219,659
Hampstead and Kilburn	£3,988	£226,131	£230,120
Harborough	£3,790	£158,158	£161,948
Harlow	£3,254	£117,302	£120,556
Harrogate and Knaresborough	£3,716	£162,548	£166,264
Harrow East	£3,450	£247,752	£251,202
Harrow West	£3,356	£239,434	£242,791
Hartlepool	£3,401	£111,984	£115,384
Harwich and North Essex	£3,428	£165,552	£168,980
Hastings and Rye	£3,766	£153,018	£156,784
Havant	£3,485	£109,006	£112,490
Hayes and Harlington	£3,523	£156,498	£160,021
Hazel Grove	£3,037	£132,987	£136,025
Hemel Hempstead	£3,578	£149,987	£153,565
Hemsworth	£3,456	£136,200	£139,656
Hendon	£3,705	£203,272	£206,977
Henley	£3,606	£194,361	£197,967
Hereford and South Herefordshire	£3,418	£207,802	£211,220
Hertford and Stortford	£3,959	£218,564	£222,523
Hertsmere	£3,537	£193,592	£197,129
Hexham	£2,969	£139,726	£142,695
Heywood and Middleton	£3,842	£170,934	£174,776
High Peak	£3,522	£160,905	£164,428
Hitchin and Harpenden	£3,651	£171,215	£174,866
Holborn and St Pancras	£4,236	£224,428	£228,664
Hornchurch and Upminster	£3,886	£205,373	£209,259
Hornsey and Wood Green	£3,844	£267,665	£271,509
Horsham	£3,980	£156,281	£160,262
Houghton and Sunderland South	£3,276	£173,164	£176,440
Hove	£3,570	£166,222	£169,792
Huddersfield	£3,224	£148,803	£152,026
Huntingdon	£4,052	£173,546	£177,598
Hyndburn	£3,443	£148,357	£151,800
Ilford North	£3,512	£166,269	£169,782
Ilford South	£4,108	£184,747	£188,855
Inverclyde	£2,830	£170,226	£173,056
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	£3,733	£175,244	£178,977
Ipswich	£3,639	£150,860	£154,498
Isle of Wight	£5,370	£194,024	£199,395
Islington North	£3,727	£218,107	£221,834
Islington South and Finsbury	£3,344	£214,464	£217,808
Islwyn	£2,705	£111,613	£114,318
Jarrow	£3,115	£156,152	£159,267
Keighley	£3,435	£153,393	£156,828
Kenilworth and Southam	£3,189	£196,531	£199,720
Kensington	£2,913	£206,430	£209,344
Kettering	£3,435	£175,873	£179,308
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	£3,526	£204,994	£208,520
Kingston and Surbiton	£3,923	£304,699	£308,622
Kingston upon Hull East	£3,172	£109,917	£113,089
Kingston upon Hull North	£3,110	£108,431	£111,541
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle	£2,894	£103,509	£106,403
Kingswood	£3,336	£138,250	£141,585
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath	£3,497	£174,657	£178,154
Knowsley	£3,932	£171,214	£175,146
Lanark and Hamilton East	£3,718	£215,322	£219,040
Lancaster and Fleetwood	£3,229	£154,322	£157,552
Leeds Central	£4,306	£217,097	£221,403
Leeds East	£3,171	£186,317	£189,488
Leeds North East	£3,371	£165,283	£168,655
Leeds North West	£3,277	£151,268	£154,546
Leeds West	£3,268	£169,808	£173,076
Leicester East	£3,741	£184,215	£187,955
Leicester South	£3,632	£188,181	£191,813
Leicester West	£3,118	£157,195	£160,313
Leigh	£3,664	£136,184	£139,849
Lewes	£3,412	£160,062	£163,474
Lewisham East	£3,276	£187,700	£190,976
Lewisham West and Penge	£3,506	£198,550	£202,055
Lewisham, Deptford	£3,773	£188,356	£192,129
Leyton and Wanstead	£3,133	£182,820	£185,953
Lichfield	£3,579	£230,781	£234,361
Lincoln	£3,516	£147,172	£150,688
Linlithgow and East Falkirk	£4,144	£181,094	£185,239
Liverpool, Riverside	£3,671	£145,413	£149,084
Liverpool, Walton	£3,017	£116,864	£119,881
Liverpool, Wavertree	£3,001	£116,651	£119,653
Liverpool, West Derby	£3,134	£128,200	£131,334
Livingston	£3,905	£179,337	£183,242
Llanelli	£2,894	£169,724	£172,618
Loughborough	£3,828	£139,367	£143,196
Louth and Horncastle	£3,799	£182,870	£186,669
Ludlow	£3,272	£167,963	£171,235
Luton North	£3,309	£141,133	£144,442
Luton South	£3,231	£138,929	£142,160
Macclesfield	£3,617	£213,385	£217,003
Maidenhead	£3,658	£173,665	£177,323
Maidstone and The Weald	£3,623	£138,992	£142,615
Makerfield	£3,570	£126,875	£130,446
Maldon	£3,437	£133,991	£137,428
Manchester Central	£4,360	£208,966	£213,326
Manchester, Gorton	£3,624	£179,706	£183,330
Manchester, Withington	£3,590	£185,353	£188,943
Mansfield	£3,742	£175,108	£178,851
Meon Valley	£3,570	£168,660	£172,230
Meriden	£3,916	£136,678	£140,594
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney	£2,667	£141,460	£144,127
Mid Bedfordshire	£4,047	£202,913	£206,960
Mid Derbyshire	£3,244	£151,184	£154,428
Mid Dorset and North Poole	£3,128	£146,704	£149,832
Mid Norfolk	£3,848	£192,631	£196,479
Mid Sussex	£4,047	£163,461	£167,508
Mid Worcestershire	£3,657	£183,731	£187,388
Middlesbrough	£2,936	£149,436	£152,372
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	£3,478	£135,964	£139,442
Midlothian	£3,286	£167,331	£170,617
Milton Keynes North	£4,290	£201,338	£205,628
Milton Keynes South	£4,444	£192,995	£197,439
Mitcham and Morden	£3,304	£205,543	£208,847
Mole Valley	£3,585	£174,587	£178,171
Monmouth	£3,121	£155,397	£158,518
Montgomeryshire	£2,500	£112,743	£115,243
Moray	£3,397	£180,954	£184,351
Morecambe and Lunesdale	£3,213	£150,853	£154,066
Morley and Outwood	£3,678	£182,930	£186,609
Motherwell and Wishaw	£3,280	£214,668	£217,948
Na h-Eileanan an Iar	£2,500	£80,971	£83,471
Neath	£2,686	£151,458	£154,144
New Forest East	£3,491	£149,292	£152,783
New Forest West	£3,308	£133,615	£136,923
Newark	£3,631	£191,280	£194,911
Newbury	£3,988	£223,675	£227,663
Newcastle upon Tyne Central	£2,662	£165,466	£168,129
Newcastle upon Tyne East	£2,981	£168,751	£171,732
Newcastle upon Tyne North	£3,177	£186,139	£189,316
Newcastle-under-Lyme	£3,154	£183,964	£187,118
Newport East	£2,751	£105,198	£107,949
Newport West	£3,096	£128,778	£131,874
Newton Abbot	£3,448	£142,661	£146,109
Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford	£3,926	£144,561	£148,486
North Ayrshire and Arran	£3,519	£217,100	£220,619
North Cornwall	£3,310	£170,222	£173,533
North Devon	£3,645	£171,917	£175,562
North Dorset	£3,670	£160,335	£164,005
North Durham	£3,220	£137,522	£140,743
North East Bedfordshire	£4,208	£201,409	£205,617
North East Cambridgeshire	£4,059	£174,146	£178,205
North East Derbyshire	£3,466	£165,847	£169,313
North East Fife	£2,822	£171,454	£174,276
North East Hampshire	£3,629	£166,802	£170,431
North East Hertfordshire	£3,653	£163,084	£166,737
North East Somerset	£3,431	£173,111	£176,542
North Herefordshire	£3,258	£211,466	£214,724
North Norfolk	£3,331	£159,868	£163,199
North Shropshire	£3,873	£168,526	£172,399
North Somerset	£3,872	£176,418	£180,290
North Swindon	£3,855	£161,379	£165,234
North Thanet	£3,494	£124,367	£127,861
North Tyneside	£3,795	£158,877	£162,672
North Warwickshire	£3,476	£134,854	£138,330
North West Cambridgeshire	£4,483	£215,000	£219,483
North West Durham	£3,461	£149,188	£152,650
North West Hampshire	£3,916	£206,109	£210,025
North West Leicestershire	£3,624	£150,976	£154,599
North West Norfolk	£3,465	£130,380	£133,846
North Wiltshire	£3,434	£195,613	£199,047
Northampton North	£2,830	£147,637	£150,468
Northampton South	£2,970	£155,075	£158,046
Norwich North	£3,218	£145,985	£149,203
Norwich South	£3,567	£176,301	£179,868
Nottingham East	£2,970	£139,269	£142,239
Nottingham North	£3,216	£139,068	£142,285
Nottingham South	£3,423	£149,589	£153,012
Nuneaton	£3,320	£130,183	£133,504
Ochil and South Perthshire	£3,692	£195,906	£199,598
Ogmore	£2,747	£122,839	£125,586
Old Bexley and Sidcup	£3,174	£226,474	£229,648
Oldham East and Saddleworth	£3,471	£134,725	£138,196
Oldham West and Royton	£3,481	£146,635	£150,117
Orkney and Shetland	£2,500	£100,687	£103,187
Orpington	£3,265	£212,337	£215,602
Oxford East	£3,768	£149,824	£153,591
Oxford West and Abingdon	£3,634	£129,442	£133,076
Paisley and Renfrewshire North	£3,213	£226,099	£229,313
Paisley and Renfrewshire South	£2,928	£208,285	£211,213
Pendle	£3,124	£122,621	£125,745
Penistone and Stocksbridge	£3,428	£155,513	£158,941
Penrith and The Border	£3,132	£221,604	£224,737
Perth and North Perthshire	£3,451	£218,257	£221,708
Peterborough	£3,439	£190,838	£194,277
Plymouth, Moor View	£3,334	£179,594	£182,929
Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport	£3,683	£167,790	£171,473
Pontypridd	£2,912	£121,474	£124,387
Poole	£3,549	£155,563	£159,111
Poplar and Limehouse	£4,199	£241,094	£245,293
Portsmouth North	£3,432	£115,614	£119,046
Portsmouth South	£3,356	£108,369	£111,724
Preseli Pembrokeshire	£2,816	£167,798	£170,614
Preston	£2,779	£137,009	£139,788
Pudsey	£3,492	£185,913	£189,405
Putney	£3,127	£177,074	£180,201
Rayleigh and Wickford	£3,778	£139,088	£142,866
Reading East	£3,632	£190,957	£194,589
Reading West	£3,583	£192,720	£196,303
Redcar	£3,211	£124,578	£127,789
Redditch	£3,097	£146,052	£149,149
Reigate	£3,589	£196,195	£199,783
Rhondda	£2,500	£119,316	£121,816
Ribble Valley	£3,749	£181,200	£184,949
Richmond (Yorks)	£3,890	£183,867	£187,758
Richmond Park	£3,848	£254,875	£258,723
Rochdale	£3,754	£180,984	£184,738
Rochester and Strood	£3,977	£182,290	£186,267
Rochford and Southend East	£3,534	£116,126	£119,660
Romford	£3,534	£191,541	£195,075
Romsey and Southampton North	£3,231	£168,807	£172,038
Ross, Skye and Lochaber	£2,605	£156,116	£158,721
Rossendale and Darwen	£3,486	£128,662	£132,148
Rother Valley	£3,618	£176,364	£179,982
Rotherham	£3,041	£154,677	£157,718
Rugby	£3,471	£158,638	£162,109
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner	£3,531	£168,444	£171,975
Runnymede and Weybridge	£3,601	£186,435	£190,037
Rushcliffe	£3,594	£213,357	£216,951
Rutherglen and Hamilton West	£3,852	£206,250	£210,101
Rutland and Melton	£3,773	£191,556	£195,329
Saffron Walden	£4,025	£237,105	£241,130
Salford and Eccles	£3,763	£164,467	£168,230
Salisbury	£3,505	£187,506	£191,011
Scarborough and Whitby	£3,539	£173,940	£177,479
Scunthorpe	£2,961	£129,826	£132,787
Sedgefield	£3,072	£136,029	£139,101
Sefton Central	£3,319	£164,852	£168,171
Selby and Ainsty	£3,651	£170,705	£174,356
Sevenoaks	£3,441	£165,216	£168,657
Sheffield Central	£3,730	£136,870	£140,600
Sheffield South East	£3,315	£121,220	£124,536
Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough	£3,383	£123,532	£126,914
Sheffield, Hallam	£3,532	£132,275	£135,807
Sheffield, Heeley	£3,272	£122,308	£125,580
Sherwood	£3,664	£173,732	£177,396
Shipley	£3,517	£151,516	£155,032
Shrewsbury and Atcham	£3,801	£166,892	£170,693
Sittingbourne and Sheppey	£3,930	£149,405	£153,334
Skipton and Ripon	£3,756	£189,082	£192,838
Sleaford and North Hykeham	£4,372	£221,680	£226,052
Slough	£4,004	£195,487	£199,492
Solihull	£3,741	£130,986	£134,727
Somerton and Frome	£4,060	£189,458	£193,518
South Basildon and East Thurrock	£3,536	£142,096	£145,632
South Cambridgeshire	£4,100	£198,128	£202,228
South Derbyshire	£3,673	£149,791	£153,464
South Dorset	£3,478	£165,054	£168,532
South East Cambridgeshire	£4,141	£183,809	£187,950
South East Cornwall	£3,456	£173,743	£177,200
South Holland and The Deepings	£3,673	£151,944	£155,616
South Leicestershire	£3,798	£158,613	£162,411
South Norfolk	£3,994	£180,346	£184,340
South Northamptonshire	£4,124	£225,330	£229,454
South Ribble	£3,643	£171,553	£175,196
South Shields	£3,050	£155,118	£158,168
South Staffordshire	£3,532	£170,253	£173,784
South Suffolk	£3,630	£142,101	£145,731
South Swindon	£3,480	£151,860	£155,341
South Thanet	£3,478	£132,499	£135,977
South West Bedfordshire	£3,830	£186,109	£189,940
South West Devon	£3,424	£156,548	£159,972
South West Hertfordshire	£3,899	£148,253	£152,152
South West Norfolk	£3,745	£145,710	£149,455
South West Surrey	£3,753	£182,777	£186,529
South West Wiltshire	£3,698	£206,454	£210,152
Southampton, Itchen	£3,449	£155,443	£158,891
Southampton, Test	£3,376	£147,842	£151,217
Southend West	£3,254	£115,880	£119,134
Southport	£3,337	£154,315	£157,652
Spelthorne	£3,493	£152,008	£155,501
St Albans	£3,501	£157,260	£160,760
St Austell and Newquay	£3,780	£171,081	£174,861
St Helens North	£3,659	£142,473	£146,131
St Helens South and Whiston	£3,801	£150,608	£154,409
St Ives	£3,244	£180,968	£184,212
Stafford	£3,291	£194,171	£197,462
Staffordshire Moorlands	£3,042	£154,358	£157,400
Stalybridge and Hyde	£3,434	£131,383	£134,817
Stevenage	£3,403	£171,087	£174,490
Stirling	£3,194	£156,825	£160,019
Stockport	£3,089	£139,028	£142,117
Stockton North	£3,187	£153,852	£157,039
Stockton South	£3,637	£180,503	£184,139
Stoke-on-Trent Central	£2,737	£108,153	£110,890
Stoke-on-Trent North	£3,441	£129,946	£133,387
Stoke-on-Trent South	£3,176	£120,102	£123,278
Stone	£3,261	£190,014	£193,275
Stourbridge	£3,377	£110,035	£113,412
Stratford-on-Avon	£3,490	£193,121	£196,610
Streatham	£3,782	£194,631	£198,413
Stretford and Urmston	£3,454	£174,212	£177,666
Stroud	£3,983	£175,805	£179,789
Suffolk Coastal	£3,816	£178,374	£182,190
Sunderland Central	£3,497	£174,231	£177,729
Surrey Heath	£3,865	£143,953	£147,818
Sutton and Cheam	£3,386	£171,951	£175,337
Sutton Coldfield	£3,638	£127,827	£131,465
Swansea East	£2,814	£115,628	£118,443
Swansea West	£2,736	£115,725	£118,461
Tamworth	£3,429	£179,289	£182,718
Tatton	£3,263	£207,202	£210,465
Taunton Deane	£4,109	£184,158	£188,267
Telford	£3,275	£147,520	£150,795
Tewkesbury	£3,916	£168,469	£172,385
The Cotswolds	£3,869	£205,399	£209,267
The Wrekin	£3,299	£152,106	£155,405
Thirsk & Malton	£3,783	£195,214	£198,997
Thornbury and Yate	£3,265	£141,216	£144,481
Thurrock	£3,758	£149,725	£153,483
Tiverton and Honiton	£3,882	£180,973	£184,855
Tonbridge and Malling	£3,723	£191,728	£195,451
Tooting	£3,749	£212,655	£216,405
Torbay	£3,651	£171,633	£175,285
Torfaen	£2,974	£123,038	£126,012
Torridge and West Devon	£3,872	£211,103	£214,975
Totnes	£3,314	£162,025	£165,339
Tottenham	£3,505	£218,389	£221,893
Truro and Falmouth	£3,591	£166,173	£169,764
Tunbridge Wells	£3,596	£144,467	£148,063
Twickenham	£4,009	£223,122	£227,130
Tynemouth	£3,724	£168,926	£172,649
Uxbridge and South Ruislip	£3,363	£162,327	£165,690
Vale of Clwyd	£2,736	£123,876	£126,611
Vale of Glamorgan	£3,556	£225,965	£229,521
Vauxhall	£3,946	£193,322	£197,268
Wakefield	£3,382	£130,948	£134,331
Wallasey	£3,244	£112,933	£116,177
Walsall North	£3,237	£138,393	£141,630
Walsall South	£3,242	£134,036	£137,278
Walthamstow	£3,251	£177,327	£180,577
Wansbeck	£2,989	£113,682	£116,671
Wantage	£4,125	£179,282	£183,407
Warley	£3,065	£86,626	£89,691
Warrington North	£3,458	£140,910	£144,369
Warrington South	£4,117	£170,635	£174,752
Warwick and Leamington	£3,570	£195,172	£198,742
Washington and Sunderland West	£3,235	£162,361	£165,596
Watford	£4,160	£185,243	£189,402
Waveney	£3,884	£146,628	£150,512
Wealden	£3,915	£209,771	£213,686
Weaver Vale	£3,319	£154,025	£157,344
Wellingborough	£3,811	£168,813	£172,624
Wells	£3,885	£182,044	£185,928
Welwyn Hatfield	£3,505	£133,173	£136,678
Wentworth and Dearne	£3,601	£172,868	£176,469
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	£3,485	£187,370	£190,856
West Bromwich East	£3,070	£87,895	£90,965
West Bromwich West	£3,172	£77,575	£80,747
West Dorset	£3,956	£184,012	£187,969
West Dunbartonshire	£3,251	£171,556	£174,807
West Ham	£4,444	£228,422	£232,866
West Lancashire	£3,523	£190,750	£194,273
West Suffolk	£3,719	£189,532	£193,252
West Worcestershire	£3,576	£196,569	£200,145
Westminster North	£3,070	£227,294	£230,364
Westmorland and Lonsdale	£3,193	£190,136	£193,329
Weston-Super-Mare	£3,950	£174,823	£178,772
Wigan	£3,623	£131,456	£135,079
Wimbledon	£3,211	£202,654	£205,865
Winchester	£3,486	£174,006	£177,492
Windsor	£3,539	£158,085	£161,624
Wirral South	£2,773	£104,823	£107,596
Wirral West	£2,693	£106,440	£109,132
Witham	£3,325	£152,658	£155,982
Witney	£3,978	£149,781	£153,760
Woking	£3,663	£186,827	£190,489
Wokingham	£3,804	£179,625	£183,429
Wolverhampton North East	£2,922	£113,207	£116,129
Wolverhampton South East	£2,900	£121,785	£124,685
Wolverhampton South West	£2,884	£112,491	£115,375
Worcester	£3,553	£181,611	£185,164
Workington	£2,915	£173,430	£176,345
Worsley and Eccles South	£3,549	£151,298	£154,846
Worthing West	£3,739	£137,552	£141,291
Wrexham	£2,500	£96,358	£98,858
Wycombe	£3,707	£202,331	£206,038
Wyre and Preston North	£3,478	£176,558	£180,036
Wyre Forest	£3,739	£148,962	£152,701
Wythenshawe and Sale East	£3,672	£204,879	£208,551
Yeovil	£3,987	£165,318	£169,305
Ynys Môn	£2,545	£127,902	£130,447
York Central	£3,718	£160,361	£164,079

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for payments for services and expenses of returning officers in connection with the conduct of parliamentary elections in England, Wales and Scotland. It replaces the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers’ Charges) (No. 2) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/671).

Under section 29(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) a returning officer may recover their charges for services and expenses, provided (first) they were necessarily rendered or incurred for the efficient and effective conduct of the parliamentary election and (secondly) the total does not exceed the ‘overall maximum recoverable amount’. Section 29(3A) of the 1983 Act enables the Minister to specify the latter by order.

Articles 3(1), 4(1) and 5 and the table in the Schedule to this Order specify the maximum amounts recoverable by returning officers when a parliamentary election is a standalone poll. On the day of the 2019 parliamentary general election no other elections will be taking place.

The table in the Schedule lists by constituency the maximum recoverable amount for specified services (column 2), the maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses (column 3) and the overall maximum recoverable amount (column 4).

In the case of an uncontested parliamentary election, article 6 provides that articles 3 to 5 do not apply. Instead the overall maximum recoverable amount is £1,750 for each constituency.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

(1)

The consent of the Treasury is required by section 29(9) of the Representation of the People Act 1983.

(2)

1983 c. 2. Section 29 was amended by paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 6 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2), section 68 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22) and section 18(1) of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6). Paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 21 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41), as amended by paragraphs 104 and 107 of Schedule 1 to the Electoral Administration Act 2006, substituted subsections (3) to (4C) but these substitutions are not yet in force. There are other amendments to the section but none is relevant.

(3)

The Transfer of Functions (Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1728) transferred the functions formerly conferred on the Treasury by section 29 to the Secretary of State and made consequential amendments. These functions were made exercisable concurrently by the Lord President of the Council and the Secretary of State by the Lord President of the Council Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1837). The Lord President of the Council’s functions were transferred to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1376); and were subsequently transferred to the Minister for the Cabinet Office by the Transfer of Functions (Elections, Referendums, Third Sector and Information) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/997).

(4)

S.I. 2017/671.