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, 2025-26
37 claims, £18,467 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 36 | £17,767 | 96.2% |
| Miscellaneous | Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19. | 1 | £700 | 3.8% |
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.
| Year | Claims | Staffing | Office costs | Accommodation | Travel | Miscellaneous | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | 167 | £82,634 | £15,911 | £11,626 | £4,842 | £5,560 | £120,573 |
| 2011-12 | 269 | £115,540 | £19,929 | £19,310 | £4,939 | — | £159,718 |
| 2012-13 | 197 | £116,611 | £20,281 | £19,080 | £6,088 | — | £162,061 |
| 2013-14 | 146 | £137,991 | £21,494 | £19,513 | £7,091 | — | £186,090 |
| 2014-15 | 130 | £138,788 | £20,936 | £19,600 | £7,027 | — | £186,351 |
| 2015-16 | 110 | £129,053 | £19,419 | £19,600 | £6,458 | — | £174,530 |
| 2016-17 | 118 | £140,732 | £23,050 | £19,600 | £7,735 | — | £191,117 |
| 2017-18 | 118 | £143,574 | £23,429 | £19,600 | £6,610 | — | £193,213 |
| 2018-19 | 107 | £147,145 | £22,790 | £20,863 | £7,678 | — | £198,477 |
| 2019-20 | 144 | £149,789 | £21,892 | £20,900 | £4,320 | — | £196,902 |
| 2020-21 | 127 | £172,907 | £20,524 | £19,158 | £1,998 | — | £214,588 |
| 2021-22 | 81 | £200,665 | £26,152 | £19,733 | £3,826 | — | £250,377 |
| 2022-23 | 89 | £191,822 | £20,499 | £21,883 | £4,083 | — | £238,287 |
| 2023-24 | 110 | £205,008 | £23,705 | £25,767 | £4,879 | — | £259,358 |
| 2024-25 | 87 | £234,738 | £19,766 | £27,190 | £5,426 | — | £287,119 |
| 2025-26 | 37 | — | £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, 2025-26
The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Service charge & ground Rent | 2 | £5,000 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 10 | £3,506 |
| Moving Fees | 1 | £2,322 |
| Equipment - purchase | 8 | £2,300 |
| Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | 3 | £1,259 |
| Equipment - hire | 4 | £1,175 |
Miscellaneous
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Removals | 1 | £700 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 February 2026 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | invoice for constituency office service charge | £2,500 | £2,500 |
| 21 October 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Service Charge Payment for constituency office | £2,500 | £2,500 |
| 2 September 2025 | Office Costs | Moving Fees | Legal costs | £2,322 | £2,322 |
| 20 March 2026 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Office furniture | £1,698 | £1,698 |
| 3 June 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £738 | £738 |
| 2 September 2025 | Office Costs | Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | HILLARYS | £719 | £719 |
| 29 April 2025 | Miscellaneous | Removals | Office move to new premises removal company | £700 | £700 |
| 8 August 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline | £572 | £572 |
| 13 November 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline | £531 | £531 |
| 28 May 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline & internet package | £531 | £531 |
| 29 August 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Internet | £521 | £521 |
| 7 August 2025 | Office Costs | Equipment - hire | Printer, photocopier & scanner | £509 | £509 |
| 2 March 2026 | Office Costs | Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection | waste collection constituency office | £480 | £480 |
| 30 January 2026 | Office Costs | Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | HILLARYS | £430 | £430 |
| 23 September 2025 | Office Costs | Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection | SHREDALL | £335 | £335 |
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.
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