MPs’ business costs

Angela Rayner

IPSA paid £1,893,529 against 1,038 published rows for Angela Rayner between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Ashton-under-Lyne 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, 2016-17

94 claims, £163,444 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.	27	£126,951	77.7%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	54	£15,534	9.5%
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.	12	£10,200	6.2%
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.	1	£10,760	6.6%

Every year in the register

Angela Rayner’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2015-16 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	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2015-16	88	£105,897	£12,803	£8,949	£12,134	£5,089	£360	£145,231
2016-17	94	£126,951	£15,534	£10,200	£10,760	—	—	£163,444
2017-18	87	£128,946	£22,392	£10,200	£8,523	—	—	£170,061
2018-19	67	£147,002	£19,958	£10,200	£8,774	—	—	£185,934
2019-20	88	£155,105	£19,830	£13,642	£6,919	—	—	£195,496
2020-21	173	£137,016	£25,040	£28,124	£5,731	—	£348	£196,259
2021-22	92	£140,342	£14,634	£32,534	£7,940	—	—	£195,450
2022-23	112	£147,605	£17,015	£32,708	£9,389	—	—	£206,717
2023-24	109	£156,921	£8,081	£35,997	£6,353	—	—	£207,351
2024-25	97	£178,694	£11,054	£28,666	£1,832	—	—	£220,247
2025-26	31	—	£3,848	£3,489	—	—	—	£7,338

A year in which Angela Rayner 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, 2016-17

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£120,758
Pooled Services	1	£4,800
Staff Training Costs	1	£612
Food & Drink Volunteer	12	£415
Public Tr UND Volunteer	12	£366

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	4	£9,120
Stationery Purchase	23	£2,604
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	10	£1,064
IT/Other Equipment Hire	6	£997
Internet Usage/Rental	4	£864
Computer SW Purchase	1	£400

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	12	£10,200

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£10,760

Largest claims, 2016-17

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 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£120,758	£120,758
31 March 2017	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2016-17	£10,760	£10,760
17 April 2016	Staffing	Pooled Services	PRS Pooled staff	£4,800	£4,800
16 September 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£2,280	£2,280
16 June 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£2,280	£2,280
1 April 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£2,280	£2,280
1 April 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Office stationary etc	£2,280	£2,280
24 February 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£850	£850
25 January 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£850	£850
20 December 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£850	£850
25 November 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£850	£850
26 October 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£850	£850
27 September 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£850	£850
24 August 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£850	£850
29 July 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£850	£850

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 Angela Rayner 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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