MPs’ business costs

Perran Moon

IPSA paid £226,214 against 175 published rows for Perran Moon between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Camborne and Redruth 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

48 claims, £9,123 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.36£6,93176.0%
AccommodationThe 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.12£2,19224.0%

Every year in the register

Perran Moon’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2024-25127£163,301£26,501£15,360£11,829£99£217,091
2025-2648£6,931£2,192£9,123

A year in which Perran Moon 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 typeClaimsPaid
Software & applications3£2,059
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage11£1,459
Stationery & printing5£940
Equipment - purchase4£537
Utilities1£459
Insurance - contents2£380

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Council tax11£2,025
Hotel - London1£167

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
22 July 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
10 September 2024Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011800-107]£513£513
15 September 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£459£459
16 August 2025Office CostsTranslation services - other languagesBSL Interpreter fee for surgery£365£365
19 November 2025AccommodationCouncil taxWWW.WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK£251£251
3 February 2026AccommodationCouncil taxWWW.WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK£249£249
6 January 2026AccommodationCouncil taxWWW.WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK£249£249
17 December 2025AccommodationCouncil taxWWW.WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK£249£249
21 February 2026Office CostsStationery & printingXMA March 2026£204£204
12 February 2026Office CostsStationery & printingXMA March 2026£204£204
12 February 2026Office CostsStationery & printingXMA March 2026£204£204
12 February 2026Office CostsInsurance - contentsHOWDEN UK BROKERS LIMI£200£200
7 March 2025Office CostsInsurance - contentsHOWDEN UK BROKERS LIMI [200011725-2660] [200011800-109]£180£180
17 December 2025Office CostsTV licenceTVLICENSING.CO.UK£175£175
13 May 2025AccommodationHotel - London[***][***][***]£167£167

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 Perran Moon 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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