MPs’ business costs

Sir Alan Campbell

IPSA paid £2,428,632 against 2,207 published rows for Sir Alan Campbell between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Tynemouth BC. 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, 2020-21

135 claims, £184,316 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
Staffing	The salaries and employment costs of the people an MP employs to run their office and casework. IPSA pays these directly; they are not money an MP receives.	2	£154,524	83.8%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	103	£17,999	9.8%
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.	24	£5,410	2.9%
Travel	Journeys between the constituency and Westminster and within the constituency. Until 2018-19 IPSA published one travel category; from 2019-20 it publishes travel by the MP, by staff and by a dependant separately.	6	£6,384	3.5%

Every year in the register

Sir Alan Campbell’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2010-11 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	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	91	£64,139	£14,001	£4,386	£9,819	—	£92,345
2011-12	129	£80,252	£19,660	£4,799	£13,516	£218	£118,446
2012-13	135	£78,130	£22,130	£5,015	£12,944	—	£118,219
2013-14	141	£82,529	£23,327	£5,104	£13,548	—	£124,508
2014-15	141	£91,350	£20,909	£5,470	£15,039	—	£132,768
2015-16	141	£104,926	£22,162	£5,157	£16,189	—	£148,433
2016-17	161	£107,238	£22,505	£3,899	£15,462	—	£149,104
2017-18	137	£113,864	£19,177	£7,247	£7,363	—	£147,651
2018-19	160	£133,437	£22,398	£5,089	£11,809	—	£172,733
2019-20	160	£135,795	£21,178	£4,424	£11,921	—	£173,319
2020-21	135	£154,524	£17,999	£5,410	£6,384	—	£184,316
2021-22	138	£158,711	£20,275	£5,480	£7,217	—	£191,682
2022-23	163	£169,014	£21,950	£5,957	£10,198	—	£207,118
2023-24	160	£172,423	£22,222	£6,330	£12,457	£220	£213,653
2024-25	145	£184,079	£25,111	£14,204	£6,855	—	£230,249
2025-26	70	—	£21,236	£2,851	—	—	£24,087

A year in which Sir Alan Campbell 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, 2020-21

The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£150,924
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,600

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	11	£8,250
Mobile telephone - contract & usage	24	£1,787
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,558
Equipment - purchase	4	£1,400
Equipment - hire	8	£1,338
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	10	£908

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Service charge & ground Rent	4	£2,697
Council tax	10	£1,721
Insurance - buildings	1	£586
Utilities	9	£405

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	2	£3,211
Mileage - car	2	£3,035
Railcard	1	£70
Parking	1	£68

Largest claims, 2020-21

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
31 March 2021	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year	£150,924	£150,924
27 May 2020	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£3,600	£3,600
31 March 2021	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2020-21	£3,195	£3,195
31 March 2021	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2020-21	£2,782	£2,782
31 March 2021	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for 2020-21	£1,558	£1,558
15 October 2020	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories	£1,237	£1,237
11 June 2020	Accommodation	Service charge & ground Rent	60049704 - London home - Fry & Co - Service Charge	£1,099	£1,099
2 March 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£750	£750
2 February 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£750	£750
6 January 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£750	£750
1 December 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£750	£750
1 November 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£750	£750
4 October 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£750	£750
1 September 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£750	£750
1 August 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£750	£750

Claims refused and money repaid, 2020-21

3 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £365 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 Sir Alan Campbell 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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