MPs’ business costs

Preet Kaur Gill

IPSA paid £1,966,637 against 1,297 published rows for Preet Kaur Gill between 2017-18 and 2025-26 as the member for Birmingham, Edgbaston BC, then Birmingham Edgbaston 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, 2023-24

184 claims, £297,303 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.	6	£210,797	70.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	139	£30,855	10.4%
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	£37,310	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.	6	£18,341	6.2%

Every year in the register

Preet Kaur Gill’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	134	£77,894	£25,851	£24,466	£4,136	—	£132,347
2018-19	159	£153,310	£24,270	£33,720	£10,357	—	£221,657
2019-20	137	£148,618	£22,770	£31,860	£9,328	—	£212,575
2020-21	105	£143,504	£20,379	£34,153	£1,982	£50	£200,069
2021-22	130	£189,197	£29,042	£34,090	£8,675	—	£261,004
2022-23	186	£204,130	£27,187	£34,759	£10,085	—	£276,161
2023-24	184	£210,797	£30,855	£37,310	£18,341	—	£297,303
2024-25	183	£248,309	£33,928	£38,800	£15,959	—	£336,995
2025-26	79	£8,042	£16,681	£3,802	—	—	£28,525

A year in which Preet Kaur Gill 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	£204,947
Pooled staffing services	1	£4,500
Bought-in services	4	£1,350

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	12	£13,383
Stationery & printing	48	£5,440
Equipment - purchase	11	£5,305
Bought-in services	9	£2,630
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	4	£1,634
Software & applications	6	£1,126

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	11	£33,150
Council tax	10	£2,305
Utilities	12	£1,855

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	5	£18,062
Hotel - UK Not London	1	£279

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	£204,947	£204,947
31 March 2024	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2023-24	£9,020	£9,020
31 March 2024	Staff Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2023-24	£8,684	£8,684
21 September 2023	Accommodation	Rent	[***] 19/8/2023 to 18/10/2023	£5,200	£5,200
28 April 2023	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£4,500	£4,500
19 March 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
20 February 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
23 January 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
19 December 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
21 November 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
19 October 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
18 July 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
15 June 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
16 May 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
18 April 2023	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600

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 £1,315 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 Preet Kaur Gill 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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