MPs’ business costs

Mr Gregory Campbell

IPSA paid £2,446,407 against 1,294 published rows for Mr Gregory Campbell between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for East Londonderry 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, 2015-16

96 claims, £169,006 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	£109,185	64.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	76	£17,723	10.5%
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.	18	£19,866	11.8%
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	£22,232	13.2%

Every year in the register

Mr Gregory Campbell’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	38	£60,529	£4,234	£10,223	£22,276	—	£97,263
2011-12	37	£82,908	£5,094	£7,068	£26,500	—	£121,570
2012-13	58	£87,875	£5,040	£16,277	£22,578	£124	£131,895
2013-14	39	£100,171	£7,385	£18,653	£21,629	—	£147,837
2014-15	56	£107,109	£8,961	£18,974	£20,143	—	£155,187
2015-16	96	£109,185	£17,723	£19,866	£22,232	—	£169,006
2016-17	110	£114,480	£17,681	£19,856	£23,762	—	£175,779
2017-18	113	£118,421	£18,154	£20,026	£23,024	—	£179,625
2018-19	107	£114,404	£18,038	£19,855	£24,500	—	£176,797
2019-20	94	£121,715	£16,268	£20,850	£27,885	—	£186,717
2020-21	76	£114,585	£11,996	£20,568	£12,671	—	£159,820
2021-22	81	£121,045	£15,831	£21,010	£17,579	—	£175,465
2022-23	107	£111,354	£20,780	£22,900	£28,391	—	£183,425
2023-24	99	£113,560	£22,002	£22,696	£23,530	—	£181,788
2024-25	107	£112,955	£20,012	£22,981	£24,925	—	£180,873
2025-26	76	—	£19,147	£4,214	—	—	£23,360

A year in which Mr Gregory Campbell 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, 2015-16

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£109,185

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Business Rates	3	£4,830
Const Office Rent	13	£3,693
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	20	£2,338
Stationery Purchase	15	£1,527
Const Office Electricity	4	£1,420
Const Office Rent 2	3	£1,000

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	13	£18,187
Council Tax	1	£929
Electricity	2	£629
Water	2	£121

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£22,232

Largest claims, 2015-16

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 2016	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2015-16 year	£109,185	£109,185
31 March 2016	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2015-16	£22,232	£22,232
15 May 2015	Office Costs	Business Rates	Coleraine Office Rates	£2,465	£2,465
8 May 2015	Office Costs	Business Rates	limavady office rates	£2,091	£2,091
8 February 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
12 January 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
11 December 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
10 November 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
8 October 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
10 September 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
11 August 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
16 July 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
16 June 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
13 May 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
15 April 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517

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 Mr Gregory Campbell 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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