MPs’ business costs

Mohammad Yasin

IPSA paid £1,580,589 against 894 published rows for Mohammad Yasin between 2017-18 and 2025-26 as the member for Bedford 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, 2022-23

167 claims, £227,729 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	£186,566	81.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	151	£30,937	13.6%
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.	4	£731	0.3%
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.	9	£8,374	3.7%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£1,122	0.5%

Every year in the register

Mohammad Yasin’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2017-18 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
2017-18	55	£104,734	£16,785	—	£7,168	—	£128,687
2018-19	91	£140,919	£17,622	—	£10,819	—	£169,360
2019-20	113	£125,520	£20,662	—	£9,022	—	£155,204
2020-21	86	£148,548	£17,448	—	£6,745	—	£172,742
2021-22	99	£179,703	£18,603	—	£10,789	—	£209,095
2022-23	167	£186,566	£30,937	£731	£8,374	£1,122	£227,729
2023-24	138	£197,580	£25,826	£4,010	£12,801	—	£240,218
2024-25	108	£220,170	£31,361	—	£11,837	—	£263,368
2025-26	37	£514	£13,474	£199	—	—	£14,186

A year in which Mohammad Yasin 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, 2022-23

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£182,366
Pooled staffing services	1	£4,200

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	8	£12,559
Service charge & ground Rent	3	£4,596
Bought-in services	5	£3,552
Website hosting and design	17	£2,320
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	22	£2,124
Utilities	24	£1,551

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	4	£731

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Railcard	1	£3,726
Hotel - late night	1	£2,174
Hotel - London	1	£1,421
Rail	3	£903
Taxi	2	£145
Subsistence	1	£6

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removals	1	£1,122

Largest claims, 2022-23

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 2023	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2022-23 year	£182,366	£182,366
18 May 2022	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£4,200	£4,200
31 March 2023	MP Travel	Railcard	Aggregated figure for travel during 2022-23	£3,726	£3,726
28 March 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£2,700	£2,700
27 December 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£2,700	£2,700
3 October 2022	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£2,400	£2,400
3 October 2022	Office Costs	Rent	05/10/22 to 24/12/22	£2,367	£2,367
31 March 2023	MP Travel	Hotel - late night	Aggregated figure for travel during 2022-23	£2,174	£2,174
26 October 2022	Office Costs	Service charge & ground Rent	Aug to December 22 Clifton House service charge	£1,939	£1,939
16 March 2023	Office Costs	Service charge & ground Rent	Constituency office service charge 25 Mar to 23 Jun 23	£1,445	£1,445
31 March 2023	MP Travel	Hotel - London	Aggregated figure for travel during 2022-23	£1,421	£1,421
12 December 2022	Office Costs	Service charge & ground Rent	3rd Floor Front, Clifton House Service Charge Dec 22 to Mar 23	£1,212	£1,212
4 August 2022	Miscellaneous	Removals	Removals for move to new constituency office 11 Aug 22	£1,122	£1,122
16 August 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£958	£958
19 July 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£958	£958

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 Mohammad Yasin 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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