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MPs’ business costs

James Murray

IPSA paid £1,344,471 against 591 published rows for James Murray between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Ealing North 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, 2025-26

72 claims, £18,108 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.72£18,108100.0%

Every year in the register

James Murray’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 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 costsTravelTotal
2019-2062£41,956£11,706—£53,662
2020-2179£198,433£10,871—£209,304
2021-2282£206,766£23,134—£229,901
2022-2399£234,661£29,598—£264,259
2023-24112£246,865£29,075£82£276,021
2024-2585£256,756£36,410£49£293,216
2025-2672—£18,108—£18,108

A year in which James Murray 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.

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Bought-in services14£8,560
Stationery & printing15£3,013
Software & applications3£1,501
Utilities10£1,252
Cleaning services10£907
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries6£713

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
28 November 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
28 February 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 January 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 December 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 November 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 October 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 September 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 August 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 July 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 June 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 May 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 April 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
28 March 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£650£650
12 May 2025Office CostsInsurance - buildingsAdditional insurance for constituency office£525£525
6 May 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£510£510

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 James Murray 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 · James Murray’s register of interests and votes · Sources