MPs’ business costs

Ms Nusrat Ghani

IPSA paid £2,051,733 against 1,555 published rows for Ms Nusrat Ghani between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Wealden CC, then Sussex Weald 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, 2023-24

195 claims, £242,246 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	£185,774	76.7%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	148	£30,867	12.7%
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.	33	£17,759	7.3%
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.	11	£7,846	3.2%

Every year in the register

Ms Nusrat Ghani’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2015-16 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
2015-16	68	£100,506	£9,571	£12,564	£1,240	—	£123,882
2016-17	95	£135,887	£10,612	£14,393	£4,277	—	£165,170
2017-18	110	£114,149	£14,744	£15,501	£3,094	£785	£148,273
2018-19	100	£133,594	£18,129	£9,622	£3,353	£834	£165,532
2019-20	130	£137,399	£26,515	£15,242	£2,206	—	£181,362
2020-21	185	£177,945	£33,442	£14,337	£2,764	—	£228,488
2021-22	205	£183,277	£25,971	£19,756	£7,197	—	£236,199
2022-23	190	£186,466	£24,390	£17,413	£11,340	—	£239,609
2023-24	195	£185,774	£30,867	£17,759	£7,846	—	£242,246
2024-25	195	£221,336	£26,824	£26,983	£7,637	£3,834	£286,615
2025-26	82	£900	£17,466	£5,938	—	£10,053	£34,357

A year in which Ms Nusrat Ghani 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, 2023-24

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£181,311
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,188
Bought-in services	1	£1,275

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Stationery & printing	44	£13,397
Rent	8	£5,684
Software & applications	40	£4,000
Advertising and contact cards	11	£2,951
Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	9	£891
Newspapers, journals, magazines	5	£851

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	12	£14,000
Utilities	8	£2,714
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	13	£1,045

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	4	£3,967
Rail	3	£3,425
Hotel - London	1	£294
Parking	2	£132
Other public transport	1	£28

Largest claims, 2023-24

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 2024	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2023-24 year	£181,311	£181,311
31 March 2024	Staff Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2023-24	£3,287	£3,287
18 April 2023	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,188	£3,188
18 May 2023	Accommodation	Utilities	Not Applicable	£1,896	£1,896
4 March 2024	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	CARTRIDGEPEOPLE.COM [200010137-1249]	£1,665	£1,665
31 March 2024	MP Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2023-24	£1,485	£1,485
20 September 2023	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA October 2023	£1,310	£1,310
26 July 2023	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£1,275	£1,275
31 March 2024	Dependant Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2023-24	£1,266	£1,266
2 April 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
5 March 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
1 February 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
5 January 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
5 December 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200
1 November 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,200	£1,200

Claims refused and money repaid, 2023-24

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £360 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 Ms Nusrat Ghani 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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