MPs’ business costs
Clive Efford
IPSA paid £2,805,662 against 1,030 published rows for Clive Efford between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Eltham BC, then Eltham and Chislehurst 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, 2010-11
58 claims, £96,422 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 | £82,610 | 85.7% |
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 55 | £13,552 | 14.1% |
| 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 | £260 | 0.3% |
Every year in the register
Clive Efford’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 | Travel | Miscellaneous | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | 58 | £82,610 | £13,552 | £260 | — | £96,422 |
| 2011-12 | 73 | £132,029 | £19,731 | £442 | £580 | £152,781 |
| 2012-13 | 63 | £137,528 | £24,724 | £1,009 | £706 | £163,966 |
| 2013-14 | 92 | £147,090 | £24,162 | £710 | — | £171,962 |
| 2014-15 | 80 | £145,323 | £22,164 | £737 | — | £168,225 |
| 2015-16 | 80 | £145,882 | £22,585 | £360 | — | £168,827 |
| 2016-17 | 74 | £154,608 | £19,939 | £360 | — | £174,907 |
| 2017-18 | 82 | £158,301 | £24,155 | £160 | — | £182,616 |
| 2018-19 | 65 | £162,219 | £21,455 | £721 | — | £184,395 |
| 2019-20 | 67 | £133,521 | £18,160 | £384 | — | £152,066 |
| 2020-21 | 41 | £178,467 | £17,496 | £1,680 | — | £197,643 |
| 2021-22 | 29 | £206,212 | £21,730 | £264 | — | £228,206 |
| 2022-23 | 85 | £216,318 | £23,322 | £957 | — | £240,597 |
| 2023-24 | 60 | £223,526 | £23,747 | £520 | £912 | £248,705 |
| 2024-25 | 55 | £241,434 | £25,190 | £685 | — | £267,308 |
| 2025-26 | 26 | — | £7,037 | — | — | £7,037 |
A year in which Clive Efford 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, 2010-11
The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.
Staffing
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Payroll | 1 | £81,410 |
| Professional Services (Staff.) | 1 | £1,200 |
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Const Office Rent | 10 | £4,430 |
| Const Office Rent 2 | 6 | £4,188 |
| Website - Hosting | 1 | £1,250 |
| Stationery Purchase | 11 | £1,032 |
| Training MP Staff | 1 | £650 |
| Computer SW Purchase | 3 | £418 |
Travel
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Aggregated Travel Costs | 1 | £260 |
Largest claims, 2010-11
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 2011 | Staffing | Payroll | Total payroll costs for the 2010-11 year | £81,410 | £81,410 |
| 30 July 2010 | Office Costs | Const Office Rent | office rent 7 May to 31 July | £2,391 | £2,391 |
| 11 March 2011 | Office Costs | Website - Hosting | website | £1,250 | £1,250 |
| 31 March 2011 | Staffing | Professional Services (Staff.) | Research Support | £1,200 | £1,200 |
| 31 March 2011 | Office Costs | Const Office Rent 2 | Office Rent | £852 | £852 |
| 31 March 2011 | Office Costs | Const Office Rent 2 | Office Rent | £852 | £852 |
| 31 March 2011 | Office Costs | Const Office Rent 2 | Office Rent | £852 | £852 |
| 31 March 2011 | Office Costs | Const Office Rent 2 | Office Rent | £852 | £852 |
| 18 November 2010 | Office Costs | Const Office Rent | Office Rent | £852 | £852 |
| 18 March 2011 | Office Costs | Training MP Staff | stationary | £650 | £650 |
| 31 March 2011 | Office Costs | Const Office Rent 2 | Middle Pk surgery 2010/11 | £600 | £600 |
| 16 September 2010 | Office Costs | Professional Services | Computer hardware and office s | £411 | £411 |
| 18 March 2011 | Office Costs | Const Office Rent | Surgery | £396 | £396 |
| 30 July 2010 | Office Costs | Const Office Rent | Surgery Rent | £364 | £364 |
| 18 March 2011 | Office Costs | Stationery Purchase | stationary | £353 | £353 |
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 Clive Efford 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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