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MPs’ business costs

Gill Furniss

IPSA paid £2,131,059 against 1,151 published rows for Gill Furniss between 2016-17 and 2025-26 as the member for Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough BC, then Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 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, 2023-24

139 claims, £292,194 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.1£235,79480.7%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.107£23,8028.1%
AccommodationThe 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.16£27,3769.4%
TravelJourneys 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.15£5,2231.8%

Every year in the register

Gill Furniss’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2016-17 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 costsAccommodationTravelStarting up and winding upMiscellaneousTotal
2016-17114£121,106£17,884£18,113£5,389£5,985—£168,477
2017-18125£137,356£22,197£22,851£7,198——£189,602
2018-19107£149,664£22,179£21,888£6,598——£200,328
2019-20114£144,405£25,797£19,926£13,404——£203,532
2020-2196£165,253£27,934£26,211£3,653—£4,760£227,811
2021-22132£198,622£22,191£22,280£4,584——£247,678
2022-23167£217,928£24,085£23,022£5,418——£270,453
2023-24139£235,794£23,802£27,376£5,223——£292,194
2024-25114£249,525£26,743£28,594£9,494—£8,400£322,755
2025-2643—£6,761£1,468———£8,229

A year in which Gill Furniss 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, 2023-24

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£235,794

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent13£9,273
Pooled staffing services1£4,500
Equipment - purchase9£2,828
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage22£1,693
Stationery & printing25£1,456
Software & applications5£1,418

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent12£25,987
Council tax1£762
Utilities1£318
Cleaning services1£309
MP Budget Overspend1£0

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rail5£2,640
Parking2£684
Hotel - UK Not London2£684
Hotel - European1£489
Air travel1£488
Other public transport3£128

Largest claims, 2023-24

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
31 March 2024StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2023-24 year£235,794£235,794
28 April 2023Office CostsPooled staffing servicesParliamentary Research Service (Labour)£4,500£4,500
26 March 2024AccommodationRent—£2,232£2,232
27 February 2024AccommodationRent—£2,232£2,232
25 January 2024AccommodationRent—£2,232£2,232
26 December 2023AccommodationRent—£2,232£2,232
28 November 2023AccommodationRent—£2,232£2,232
26 October 2023AccommodationRent—£2,232£2,232
26 September 2023AccommodationRent—£2,232£2,232
29 August 2023AccommodationRent—£2,232£2,232
25 July 2023AccommodationRent—£2,232£2,232
23 June 2023AccommodationRent[***] Gillian Furniss [***] 1st month´s rent£2,232£2,232
31 March 2024MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2023-24£2,054£2,054
30 May 2023AccommodationRent—£1,835£1,835
2 May 2023AccommodationRent—£1,835£1,835

Claims refused and money repaid, 2023-24

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £531 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 Gill Furniss 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 · Gill Furniss’s register of interests and votes · Sources