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, 2020-21

173 claims, £196,259 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.	1	£137,016	69.8%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	125	£25,040	12.8%
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.	44	£28,124	14.3%
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.	2	£5,731	2.9%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£348	0.2%

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, 2020-21

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£137,016

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Equipment - purchase	21	£6,363
Stationery & printing	52	£5,656
Rent	1	£4,335
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,600
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	21	£1,541
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,251

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	14	£25,104
Utilities	13	£1,522
Council tax	6	£1,231
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	11	£267

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	2	£5,731

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	1	£348

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	£137,016	£137,016
31 March 2021	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2020-21	£5,677	£5,677
31 March 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£4,335	£4,335
27 May 2020	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£3,600	£3,600
24 August 2020	Accommodation	Rent	First month rent for London accommodation, administration fee, references for new property, check-in, and payment of intent	£3,463	£3,463
16 March 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,492	£2,492
16 February 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,492	£2,492
19 January 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,492	£2,492
15 December 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,492	£2,492
15 November 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,492	£2,492
18 October 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,492	£2,492
15 September 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,492	£2,492
23 August 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,492	£2,492
7 April 2020	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories	£1,619	£1,619
17 March 2021	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£1,440	£1,440

Claims refused and money repaid, 2020-21

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £260 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 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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