MPs’ business costs

Imran Hussain

IPSA paid £2,206,716 against 1,782 published rows for Imran Hussain between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Bradford East 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, 2015-16

113 claims, £149,775 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.	9	£101,465	67.7%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	67	£18,617	12.4%
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.	23	£20,941	14.0%
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	£4,898	3.3%
Starting up and winding up	The one-off costs of opening an office on election and of closing one on leaving. These fall in the years around a general election and are absent from the rest.	13	£3,854	2.6%

Every year in the register

Imran Hussain’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2015-16 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	Starting up and winding up	Total
2015-16	113	£101,465	£18,617	£20,941	£4,898	£3,854	£149,775
2016-17	288	£121,159	£21,860	£24,869	£8,107	£1,898	£177,893
2017-18	407	£134,764	£19,929	£33,193	£6,115	—	£194,002
2018-19	179	£141,617	£16,605	£37,596	£6,705	—	£202,523
2019-20	118	£142,832	£20,164	£36,701	£4,892	—	£204,589
2020-21	63	£124,160	£26,655	£37,312	£444	—	£188,571
2021-22	75	£133,636	£24,730	£37,260	£7,092	—	£202,718
2022-23	137	£176,575	£24,042	£34,526	£11,956	—	£247,100
2023-24	194	£213,076	£30,808	£46,326	£16,715	—	£306,924
2024-25	155	£230,987	£29,171	£44,375	£9,904	—	£314,437
2025-26	53	£2,860	£10,550	£4,775	—	—	£18,185

A year in which Imran Hussain 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	£93,480
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£3,900
Staff Training Costs	5	£3,739
Hotel London Area Volunteer	1	£238
Public Tr RAIL Volunteer - RT	1	£107

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	6	£7,326
Stationery Purchase	37	£3,912
Other Equip Purchase	6	£2,703
Computer HW Purchase	1	£1,547
Computer SW Purchase	2	£1,350
Legal Expenses Insurance	1	£657

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	12	£17,006
Hotel London Area	9	£2,482
Council Tax	1	£1,437
Electricity	1	£16

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£4,898

Starting up and winding up

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Office Alterations StartUp	3	£1,128
Shredder Purch Startup	1	£766
Office Furn Purch StartUp	3	£749
Telephone Installation StartUp	2	£615
Tel/Mobile Purch StartUp	1	£320
Fax Purchase StartUp	1	£150

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	£93,480	£93,480
31 March 2016	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2015-16	£4,898	£4,898
29 June 2015	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRS	£3,900	£3,900
12 November 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£3,125	£3,125
1 October 2015	Office Costs	Other Equip Purchase	October card reconciliation	£2,064	£2,064
4 February 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
4 January 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
4 December 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
3 November 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
2 October 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
4 September 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
4 August 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
7 July 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733
24 March 2016	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	March payment card	£1,547	£1,547
9 September 2015	Accommodation	Council Tax	September card reconciliation	£1,437	£1,437

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 Imran Hussain 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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