MPs’ business costs

Manuela Perteghella

IPSA paid £180,123 against 203 published rows for Manuela Perteghella between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Stratford-on-Avon 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

77 claims, £18,307 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.	59	£10,896	59.5%
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.	18	£7,411	40.5%

Every year in the register

Manuela Perteghella’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	Accommodation	Travel	Total
2024-25	126	£115,751	£19,371	£20,222	£6,472	£161,816
2025-26	77	—	£10,896	£7,411	—	£18,307

A year in which Manuela Perteghella 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
Business rates	22	£3,362
Stationery & printing	16	£3,126
Software & applications	1	£1,476
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	10	£1,408
Equipment - purchase	3	£572
Equipment - hire	3	£392

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	16	£7,198
Hotel - UK Not London	1	£139
Utilities	1	£74

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
24 July 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
16 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£836	£836
11 December 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
23 October 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
16 October 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
3 November 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£597	£597
17 December 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£440	£440
26 November 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£440	£440
19 November 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£440	£440
16 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£440	£440
10 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£440	£440
23 May 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Not Applicable	£411	£411
23 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2026	£372	£372
21 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£360	£360
5 January 2026	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£345	£345

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 Manuela Perteghella 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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