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MPs’ business costs

Lilian Greenwood

IPSA paid £3,037,227 against 2,037 published rows for Lilian Greenwood between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Nottingham 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, 2024-25

87 claims, £287,119 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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£234,73881.8%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.78£19,7666.9%
AccommodationThe 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.1£27,1909.5%
TravelJourneys 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.6£5,4261.9%

Every year in the register

Lilian Greenwood’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2010-11167£82,634£15,911£11,626£4,842£5,560£120,573
2011-12269£115,540£19,929£19,310£4,939—£159,718
2012-13197£116,611£20,281£19,080£6,088—£162,061
2013-14146£137,991£21,494£19,513£7,091—£186,090
2014-15130£138,788£20,936£19,600£7,027—£186,351
2015-16110£129,053£19,419£19,600£6,458—£174,530
2016-17118£140,732£23,050£19,600£7,735—£191,117
2017-18118£143,574£23,429£19,600£6,610—£193,213
2018-19107£147,145£22,790£20,863£7,678—£198,477
2019-20144£149,789£21,892£20,900£4,320—£196,902
2020-21127£172,907£20,524£19,158£1,998—£214,588
2021-2281£200,665£26,152£19,733£3,826—£250,377
2022-2389£191,822£20,499£21,883£4,083—£238,287
2023-24110£205,008£23,705£25,767£4,879—£259,358
2024-2587£234,738£19,766£27,190£5,426—£287,119
2025-2637—£17,767——£700£18,467

A year in which Lilian Greenwood 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, 2024-25

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£230,138
Pooled staffing services1£4,600

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent1£10,800
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage16£2,616
Equipment - hire15£2,185
Stationery & printing15£1,917
Equipment - purchase6£810
Software & applications1£720

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent1£27,190

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rail2£5,318
Mileage - car1£48
Other public transport2£44
Parking1£16

Largest claims, 2024-25

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
31 March 2025StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year£230,138£230,138
31 March 2025AccommodationRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£27,190£27,190
31 March 2025Office CostsRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£10,800£10,800
25 February 2025StaffingPooled staffing servicesParliamentary Research Service (Labour)£4,600£4,600
31 March 2025MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£4,162£4,162
31 March 2025Staff TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£1,157£1,157
17 May 2024Office CostsSoftware & applicationsCaseworker application annual charge£720£720
25 March 2025Office CostsStationery & printingK P D CONSUMABLES LTD [200011725-7505]£551£551
3 February 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£502£502
22 November 2024Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£500£500
21 August 2024Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£500£500
7 May 2024Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£492£492
3 February 2025Office CostsEquipment - hirePrinter, photocopier & scanner£367£367
3 December 2024Office CostsEquipment - hirePrinter, photocopier & scanner£319£319
3 September 2024Office CostsEquipment - hirePrinter, photocopier & scanner£319£319

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £223 repaid. A refusal is not a finding of wrongdoing — most are claims outside the scheme’s rules, or submitted without the evidence IPSA requires — and it is shown because leaving it out would show only the money that went out.

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 Lilian Greenwood 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 · Lilian Greenwood’s register of interests and votes · Sources