MPs’ business costs
Kevin Bonavia
IPSA paid £197,433 against 202 published rows for Kevin Bonavia between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Stevenage 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, 2025-26
43 claims, £14,095 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. | 2 | £1,141 | 8.1% |
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 41 | £12,954 | 91.9% |
Every year in the register
Kevin Bonavia’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.
| Year | Claims | Staffing | Office costs | Travel | Miscellaneous | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 159 | £148,436 | £29,142 | £5,610 | £150 | £183,338 |
| 2025-26 | 43 | £1,141 | £12,954 | — | — | £14,095 |
A year in which Kevin Bonavia 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.
Staffing
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Training - staff | 2 | £1,141 |
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Service charge & ground Rent | 6 | £4,254 |
| Stationery & printing | 10 | £1,916 |
| Equipment - purchase | 6 | £1,489 |
| Software & applications | 1 | £1,476 |
| Utilities | 4 | £1,302 |
| Postage & couriers | 1 | £577 |
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.
| Date | Category | Cost type | Description | Claimed | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £1,476 | £1,476 |
| 1 March 2026 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | service charge for constituency office | £905 | £905 |
| 1 December 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | service charge for Stevenage constituency office of Kevin Bonavia | £905 | £905 |
| 1 September 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | service charge for constituency office Osprey house | £905 | £905 |
| 2 June 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | this is for service charges for ground floor right Osprey house Stevenage constituency office | £905 | £905 |
| 21 March 2026 | Office Costs | Postage & couriers | postage stamps regular and large for corresponding with the constituents | £577 | £577 |
| 15 September 2025 | Staffing | Training - staff | PARLI-TRAINING | £570 | £570 |
| 15 September 2025 | Staffing | Training - staff | PARLI-TRAINING | £570 | £570 |
| 13 June 2025 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Office furniture | £475 | £475 |
| 18 March 2026 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Office furniture | £475 | £475 |
| 27 May 2025 | Office Costs | Insurance - buildings | premium for the buildings insurance supplied through the landlord | £382 | £382 |
| 20 January 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Banner February 2026 | £377 | £377 |
| 2 June 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Electricity | £345 | £345 |
| 2 March 2026 | Office Costs | Utilities | Electricity | £338 | £338 |
| 1 September 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Electricity | £336 | £336 |
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 Kevin Bonavia 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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