MPs’ business costs

Emma Reynolds

IPSA paid £1,849,264 against 2,162 published rows for Emma Reynolds between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Wolverhampton North East BC, then Wycombe 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

78 claims, £17,192 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.	40	£8,460	49.2%
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.	38	£8,732	50.8%

Every year in the register

Emma Reynolds’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	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	134	£86,383	£18,301	£16,097	£1,737	—	—	£122,519
2011-12	161	£114,708	£19,511	£19,900	£3,071	—	—	£157,190
2012-13	188	£132,016	£22,200	£19,967	£3,731	—	—	£177,914
2013-14	193	£127,124	£22,116	£16,820	£2,423	—	—	£168,482
2014-15	151	£135,086	£20,671	£11,529	£4,479	—	—	£171,765
2015-16	133	£135,465	£19,460	£9,785	£3,147	—	—	£167,856
2016-17	274	£141,171	£20,542	£9,919	£3,631	—	—	£175,262
2017-18	242	£120,975	£20,090	£10,596	£964	—	—	£152,624
2018-19	223	£151,559	£23,680	£12,071	£3,825	—	—	£191,135
2019-20	111	£93,882	£14,293	£9,422	£1,204	£33,857	£8,455	£161,114
2020-21	3	—	—	—	—	£688	—	£688
2024-25	271	£150,398	£25,943	£4,768	£3,814	—	£600	£185,524
2025-26	78	—	£8,460	£8,732	—	—	—	£17,192

A year in which Emma Reynolds 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
Stationery & printing	16	£3,296
Software & applications	3	£2,207
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	13	£1,495
Equipment - purchase	1	£694
TV licence	2	£288
Insurance - contents	2	£229

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	38	£8,732

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
16 June 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
6 February 2026	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Office furniture	£694	£694
16 August 2024	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011793-362]	£469	£469
8 December 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£460	£460
24 November 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£460	£460
3 November 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£460	£460
7 July 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£450	£450
30 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£450	£450
22 October 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£440	£440
20 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA March 2026	£352	£352
21 March 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	CANVA [***] [200011725-5888] [200011793-363]	£262	£262
2 December 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£230	£230
12 November 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£230	£230
13 October 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£230	£230
14 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£230	£230

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 Emma Reynolds 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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