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, 2017-18

113 claims, £179,625 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	£118,421	65.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	89	£18,154	10.1%
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.	22	£20,026	11.1%
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	£23,024	12.8%

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, 2017-18

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£118,421

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	14	£4,023
Business Rates	2	£3,885
Professional Services	12	£1,920
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	22	£1,633
Stationery Purchase	4	£1,528
Venue Hire Surgery/Meeting	12	£1,080

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	14	£18,200
Council Tax	1	£983
Electricity	5	£695
Water	2	£149

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£23,024

Largest claims, 2017-18

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 2018	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2017-18 year	£118,421	£118,421
31 March 2018	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2017-18	£23,024	£23,024
19 June 2017	Office Costs	Business Rates	Office Rates Lvdy /Craine	£2,819	£2,819
9 February 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
9 January 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
11 December 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
9 November 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
9 October 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
13 September 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
10 August 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
12 July 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
11 June 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
11 April 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
11 May 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,217	£1,217
19 June 2017	Office Costs	Business Rates	Office Rates Lvdy /Craine	£1,065	£1,065

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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