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MPs’ business costs

Georgia Gould

IPSA paid £230,289 against 116 published rows for Georgia Gould between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Queen's Park and Maida Vale 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, 2025-26

37 claims, £5,992 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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£4407.3%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.35£5,55292.7%

Every year in the register

Georgia Gould’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2024-25 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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsTotal
2024-2579£197,051£27,246£224,297
2025-2637£440£5,552£5,992

A year in which Georgia Gould 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.

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Training - staff2£440

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage23£2,208
Software & applications2£1,576
Equipment - purchase2£856
Stationery & printing4£482
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries2£315
Recruitment Services &Costs1£59

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
18 June 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
22 April 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOffice furniture£746£746
25 April 2025StaffingTraining - staffProvision of Individual Coaching and Development Sessions to team member within the Queen’s Park and Maida Vale MP’s Office FY 25-26£367£367
28 August 2025Office CostsStationery & printingSP PROLINEOFFICE.CO.UK£180£180
4 February 2026Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£175£175
5 February 2026Office CostsStationery & printingSP PROLINEOFFICE.CO.UK£149£149
26 January 2026Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£140£140
21 April 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£134£134
11 February 2026Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£131£131
12 January 2026Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£131£131
11 December 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£131£131
12 November 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£131£131
9 October 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£131£131
12 September 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£131£131
12 August 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£131£131

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 Georgia Gould 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Georgia Gould’s register of interests and votes · Sources