MPs’ business costs

Dame Nia Griffith

IPSA paid £2,911,548 against 2,237 published rows for Dame Nia Griffith between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Llanelli 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, 2015-16

119 claims, £171,159 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.	1	£142,667	83.4%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	117	£21,408	12.5%
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.	1	£7,084	4.1%

Every year in the register

Dame Nia Griffith’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	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	56	£91,889	£15,897	£8,676	—	£116,462
2011-12	119	£138,862	£21,374	£9,472	—	£169,708
2012-13	199	£122,356	£22,850	£6,312	—	£151,518
2013-14	328	£147,920	£22,449	£5,874	—	£176,243
2014-15	138	£138,377	£22,092	£7,257	—	£167,726
2015-16	119	£142,667	£21,408	£7,084	—	£171,159
2016-17	124	£140,792	£25,224	£8,655	£991	£175,662
2017-18	170	£150,900	£23,663	£8,158	£261	£182,983
2018-19	177	£153,132	£24,287	£9,182	£1,498	£188,100
2019-20	180	£153,531	£20,261	£9,084	£595	£183,471
2020-21	139	£171,009	£24,436	£3,358	£804	£199,607
2021-22	103	£190,806	£19,793	£5,253	£487	£216,339
2022-23	114	£218,139	£22,814	£6,768	£1,233	£248,954
2023-24	113	£234,084	£23,079	£9,313	£1,532	£268,008
2024-25	109	£240,751	£28,339	£9,103	£1,108	£279,301
2025-26	49	—	£14,399	—	£1,905	£16,304

A year in which Dame Nia Griffith 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, 2015-16

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£142,667

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	1	£8,580
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	7	£2,440
Stationery Purchase	25	£1,538
IT/Other Equipment Hire	6	£1,492
Advertising	7	£1,109
Venue Hire Surgery/Meeting	30	£1,087

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£7,084

Largest claims, 2015-16

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 2016	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2015-16 year	£142,667	£142,667
24 August 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£8,580	£8,580
31 March 2016	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2015-16	£7,084	£7,084
1 October 2015	Office Costs	IT/Other Equipment Hire	Card reconciliation Oct 2015	£611	£611
9 August 2015	Office Costs	Legal Exp/Emp Practice Insur.	EPL	£578	£578
15 March 2016	Office Costs	Professional Services	March 2016 Card Payment	£498	£498
22 March 2016	Office Costs	Advertising	Office Costs March 2016	£456	£456
31 December 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Jan card reconciliation	£443	£443
31 March 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Card reconciliation - April 16	£443	£443
1 October 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Card reconciliation Oct 2015	£428	£428
29 March 2016	Office Costs	Other Equip Purchase	office costs 29 March	£420	£420
25 March 2016	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	office costs 29 March	£420	£420
9 July 2015	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Card reconciliation July 2015	£402	£402
3 July 2015	Office Costs	IT/Other Equipment Hire	cfl caseworker	£335	£335
11 August 2015	Office Costs	Advertising	office costs july / august 201	£300	£300

Claims refused and money repaid, 2015-16

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £456 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 Dame Nia Griffith 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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