MPs’ business costs
Chris Evans
IPSA paid £2,777,723 against 1,520 published rows for Chris Evans between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Islwyn CC, then Caerphilly CC. 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, 2025-26
26 claims, £5,020 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 26 | £5,020 | 100.0% |
Every year in the register
Chris Evans’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 | 63 | £75,634 | £16,524 | £12,105 | £5,797 | — | £110,060 |
| 2011-12 | 100 | £106,252 | £20,104 | £18,681 | £7,251 | — | £152,288 |
| 2012-13 | 93 | £124,211 | £20,460 | £19,904 | £6,739 | — | £171,314 |
| 2013-14 | 128 | £134,434 | £18,818 | £20,596 | £5,817 | £16 | £179,681 |
| 2014-15 | 96 | £129,997 | £12,328 | £20,482 | £5,790 | — | £168,597 |
| 2015-16 | 94 | £127,426 | £16,948 | £21,350 | £5,608 | — | £171,332 |
| 2016-17 | 95 | £116,252 | £11,184 | £19,836 | £6,521 | — | £153,794 |
| 2017-18 | 87 | £128,824 | £12,030 | £20,472 | £4,501 | — | £165,827 |
| 2018-19 | 88 | £135,004 | £10,168 | £21,964 | £7,404 | — | £174,540 |
| 2019-20 | 105 | £148,602 | £10,536 | £20,156 | £6,200 | — | £185,494 |
| 2020-21 | 69 | £153,874 | £9,863 | £115 | £7,131 | — | £170,983 |
| 2021-22 | 100 | £168,960 | £15,266 | £3,965 | £9,211 | — | £197,401 |
| 2022-23 | 143 | £196,373 | £17,782 | £6,458 | £10,317 | — | £230,929 |
| 2023-24 | 145 | £203,440 | £23,222 | £16,640 | £7,052 | £95 | £250,449 |
| 2024-25 | 88 | £244,432 | £16,879 | £23,900 | £4,692 | £111 | £290,014 |
| 2025-26 | 26 | — | £5,020 | — | — | — | £5,020 |
A year in which Chris Evans 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, 2025-26
The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 6 | £1,430 |
| Website hosting and design | 11 | £1,188 |
| Software & applications | 2 | £1,069 |
| Stationery & printing | 2 | £500 |
| Equipment - hire | 1 | £280 |
| Business rates | 1 | £179 |
Largest claims, 2025-26
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 October 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £738 | £738 |
| 16 June 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline | £450 | £450 |
| 12 September 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline | £424 | £424 |
| 8 April 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | WWW.TONERGIANT.CO.UK | £344 | £344 |
| 14 October 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | WWW.SPEAKIT.INFO | £331 | £331 |
| 14 April 2025 | Office Costs | Equipment - hire | Printer, photocopier & scanner | £280 | £280 |
| 12 November 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline & internet package | £197 | £197 |
| 1 April 2025 | Office Costs | Business rates | CCBC - ONLINE PAYMENT | £179 | £179 |
| 19 January 2026 | Office Costs | TV licence | TVLICENSING.CO.UK | £175 | £175 |
| 17 October 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | WWW.TONERGIANT.CO.UK | £156 | £156 |
| 28 November 2025 | Office Costs | Insurance - contents | HISCOXME | £144 | £144 |
| 4 February 2026 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline & internet package | £120 | £120 |
| 5 January 2026 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline & internet package | £120 | £120 |
| 3 December 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline & internet package | £120 | £120 |
| 19 February 2026 | Office Costs | Website hosting and design | SQ HIGHSTREET MEDIA G | £108 | £108 |
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 Chris Evans 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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