MPs’ business costs

Lisa Nandy

IPSA paid £2,859,346 against 1,868 published rows for Lisa Nandy between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Wigan 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, 2020-21

123 claims, £192,548 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.	3	£149,083	77.4%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	95	£20,896	10.9%
Accommodation	The 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.	23	£15,479	8.0%
Travel	Journeys 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.	2	£7,090	3.7%

Every year in the register

Lisa Nandy’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	113	£94,749	£19,710	£11,768	£5,278	—	£131,506
2011-12	127	£115,310	£15,533	£20,160	£5,300	—	£156,303
2012-13	160	£131,488	£19,356	£21,216	£5,779	—	£177,839
2013-14	170	£135,243	£21,214	£20,101	£7,014	—	£183,572
2014-15	141	£129,691	£20,557	£19,937	£10,891	—	£181,075
2015-16	135	£139,599	£20,708	£21,646	£9,461	—	£191,414
2016-17	120	£163,370	£23,161	£22,364	£10,385	£1,161	£220,441
2017-18	137	£141,914	£20,573	£21,841	£7,379	—	£191,707
2018-19	122	£145,133	£20,534	£22,306	£10,219	—	£198,193
2019-20	100	£151,491	£21,558	£20,984	£8,327	—	£202,360
2020-21	123	£149,083	£20,896	£15,479	£7,090	—	£192,548
2021-22	93	£142,112	£20,888	£10,200	£10,480	—	£183,680
2022-23	94	£144,370	£20,525	£10,200	£10,510	—	£185,605
2023-24	104	£181,468	£21,876	£9,350	£8,354	—	£221,048
2024-25	101	£198,841	£22,544	£10,202	£3,299	—	£234,886
2025-26	28	—	£7,171	—	—	—	£7,171

A year in which Lisa Nandy 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, 2020-21

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£147,183
Pooled staffing services	1	£1,800
Health & welfare - staff	1	£100

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	3	£9,285
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	8	£2,356
Stationery & printing	37	£2,104
Equipment - purchase	3	£2,067
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,207
Mobile telephone - contract & usage	21	£922

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	11	£14,352
Council tax	8	£761
Utilities	4	£367

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	1	£6,755
Railcard	1	£335

Largest claims, 2020-21

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
31 March 2021	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year	£147,183	£147,183
31 March 2021	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2020-21	£6,755	£6,755
6 January 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£3,095	£3,095
4 October 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£3,095	£3,095
1 July 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£3,095	£3,095
14 September 2020	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,800	£1,800
25 October 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,777	£1,777
27 September 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,777	£1,777
23 August 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,777	£1,777
24 July 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,777	£1,777
27 May 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,777	£1,777
29 April 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,777	£1,777
17 July 2020	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories	£1,218	£1,218
31 March 2021	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for 2020-21	£1,207	£1,207
30 March 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£850	£850

Claims refused and money repaid, 2020-21

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £870 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 Lisa Nandy 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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