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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, 2024-25

145 claims, £230,249 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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.4£184,07979.9%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.118£25,11110.9%
AccommodationThe 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.19£14,2046.2%
TravelJourneys 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.4£6,8553.0%

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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2010-1191£64,139£14,001£4,386£9,819—£92,345
2011-12129£80,252£19,660£4,799£13,516£218£118,446
2012-13135£78,130£22,130£5,015£12,944—£118,219
2013-14141£82,529£23,327£5,104£13,548—£124,508
2014-15141£91,350£20,909£5,470£15,039—£132,768
2015-16141£104,926£22,162£5,157£16,189—£148,433
2016-17161£107,238£22,505£3,899£15,462—£149,104
2017-18137£113,864£19,177£7,247£7,363—£147,651
2018-19160£133,437£22,398£5,089£11,809—£172,733
2019-20160£135,795£21,178£4,424£11,921—£173,319
2020-21135£154,524£17,999£5,410£6,384—£184,316
2021-22138£158,711£20,275£5,480£7,217—£191,682
2022-23163£169,014£21,950£5,957£10,198—£207,118
2023-24160£172,423£22,222£6,330£12,457£220£213,653
2024-25145£184,079£25,111£14,204£6,855—£230,249
2025-2670—£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, 2024-25

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£178,021
Pooled staffing services1£4,600
Training - staff1£1,314
Bought-in services1£144

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Service charge & ground Rent13£7,932
Rent10£4,319
Business rates6£2,963
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage10£1,566
Equipment - hire14£1,522
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs2£1,150

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent13£11,599
Council tax1£2,154
Utilities5£451

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rail2£4,710
Mileage - car1£1,872
Vehicle hire cost1£273

Largest claims, 2024-25

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
31 March 2025StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year£178,021£178,021
12 April 2024StaffingPooled staffing servicesParliamentary Research Service (Labour)£4,600£4,600
31 March 2025MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£4,361£4,361
22 October 2024AccommodationCouncil taxCouncil tax£2,154£2,154
9 October 2024Office CostsBusiness ratesNTC - [***]£2,071£2,071
31 March 2025MP TravelMileage - carAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£1,872£1,872
24 October 2024StaffingTraining - staffConflict training£1,314£1,314
11 March 2025AccommodationRent—£995£995
11 February 2025AccommodationRent—£995£995
14 January 2025AccommodationRent—£995£995
11 December 2024AccommodationRent—£995£995
12 November 2024AccommodationRent—£995£995
15 October 2024AccommodationRent—£995£995
12 September 2024AccommodationRent—£995£995
13 August 2024AccommodationRent—£995£995

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25

3 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £2,263 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Sir Alan Campbell’s register of interests and votes · Sources