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, 2021-22

103 claims, £216,339 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.	5	£190,806	88.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	82	£19,793	9.1%
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.	14	£5,253	2.4%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	2	£487	0.2%

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, 2021-22

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£186,606
Pooled staffing services	4	£4,200

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	1	£8,166
Utilities	10	£2,120
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	3	£1,805
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,647
Stationery & printing	13	£1,215
Equipment - hire	5	£1,043

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	3	£3,886
Hotel - London	1	£483
Mileage - car	4	£478
Air travel	1	£160
Other public transport	1	£74
Parking	2	£70

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Translation services (Welsh Language)	2	£487

Largest claims, 2021-22

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 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£186,606	£186,606
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£8,166	£8,166
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£3,143	£3,143
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£1,647	£1,647
25 February 2022	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,050	£1,050
12 January 2022	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,050	£1,050
2 September 2021	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,050	£1,050
2 September 2021	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,050	£1,050
26 March 2021	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories	£908	£908
8 March 2022	Office Costs	Utilities	Gas	£799	£799
28 June 2021	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£602	£602
4 January 2022	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£602	£602
5 October 2021	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£602	£602
17 May 2021	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Office services	£600	£600
30 March 2021	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - installation & equipment purchase	Landline & internet package	£588	£588

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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