MPs’ business costs

Graham Stuart

IPSA paid £2,973,368 against 2,449 published rows for Graham Stuart between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Beverley and Holderness 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

76 claims, £31,891 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.	1	£3,713	11.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	64	£24,982	78.3%
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.	11	£3,197	10.0%

Every year in the register

Graham Stuart’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	192	£76,189	£11,992	£14,644	£6,029	£807	£109,662
2011-12	156	£109,211	£15,316	£18,314	£7,189	—	£150,029
2012-13	125	£126,952	£16,662	£19,192	£9,422	£60	£172,288
2013-14	135	£134,041	£11,069	£20,311	£7,890	—	£173,311
2014-15	132	£133,730	£14,623	£19,639	£9,783	—	£177,775
2015-16	145	£134,652	£20,847	£20,008	£9,473	—	£184,980
2016-17	150	£138,223	£22,141	£19,846	£8,008	—	£188,219
2017-18	151	£102,871	£21,782	£20,642	£9,632	£83	£155,009
2018-19	153	£129,664	£15,085	£21,378	£12,825	—	£178,952
2019-20	160	£122,298	£19,038	£19,061	£8,883	—	£169,279
2020-21	165	£164,465	£20,465	£19,874	£6,735	—	£211,539
2021-22	125	£192,243	£17,174	£22,716	£9,475	—	£241,608
2022-23	150	£194,576	£19,092	£22,079	£8,062	£1,440	£245,250
2023-24	210	£217,323	£25,489	£26,584	£12,176	—	£281,572
2024-25	224	£231,973	£29,725	£28,071	£12,236	—	£302,005
2025-26	76	£3,713	£24,982	£3,197	—	—	£31,891

A year in which Graham Stuart 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 type	Claims	Paid
Bought-in services	1	£3,713

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Stationery & printing	10	£6,694
Equipment - purchase	6	£4,326
Bought-in services	4	£3,755
Postage & couriers	1	£3,403
Advertising and contact cards	15	£2,028
Software & applications	10	£1,898

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council tax	1	£2,034
Utilities	10	£1,162

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
26 November 2025	Staffing	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£3,713	£3,713
9 January 2026	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	postage ADVANCE	£3,403	£3,403
13 February 2026	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£2,676	£2,676
11 February 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	ADVANCE printing	£2,253	£2,253
9 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	printing ADVANCE	£2,059	£2,059
14 April 2025	Accommodation	Council tax	WWW.WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK	£2,034	£2,034
31 October 2025	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£2,000	£2,000
23 February 2026	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Comms & Media	£1,200	£1,200
27 January 2026	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£1,063	£1,063
12 June 2025	Office Costs	Recruitment Services &Costs	HIVE SUPPORT LTD	£900	£900
11 February 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	ADVANCE printing	£774	£774
16 December 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£738	£738
16 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	stationery	£517	£517
26 February 2026	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Comms & Media	£495	£495
31 July 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	printing	£399	£399

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £360 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 Graham Stuart 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 · Graham Stuart’s register of interests and votes · Sources