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MPs’ business costs

Jas Athwal

IPSA paid £170,987 against 78 published rows for Jas Athwal between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Ilford South 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

33 claims, £6,440 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.33£6,440100.0%

Every year in the register

Jas Athwal’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2024-25 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
2024-2545£140,844£23,656£47£164,547
2025-2633—£6,440—£6,440

A year in which Jas Athwal 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
Stationery & printing12£2,021
Software & applications2£1,746
Bought-in services5£1,654
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries8£492
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage5£465
Equipment - purchase1£63

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
17 October 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
20 January 2026Office CostsStationery & printing1 STOP SIGNS£858£858
17 October 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesAdministrative services£404£404
31 December 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesParliamentary accountancy£374£374
2 December 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesParliamentary accountancy£374£374
31 October 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesAdministrative services£374£374
11 April 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsCANVA [***]£270£270
10 December 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner January 2026£184£184
29 October 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner November 2025£150£150
22 October 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner November 2025£150£150
22 October 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner November 2025£150£150
7 April 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesAdministrative services£127£127
4 November 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner December 2025£124£124
22 October 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner November 2025£124£124
16 September 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner November 2025£106£106

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 Jas Athwal 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 · Jas Athwal’s register of interests and votes · Sources