MPs’ business costs

Sarah Champion

IPSA paid £2,480,126 against 2,590 published rows for Sarah Champion between 2012-13 and 2025-26 as the member for Rotherham 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, 2025-26

72 claims, £24,905 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	£143	0.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	66	£23,593	94.7%
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.	5	£1,168	4.7%

Every year in the register

Sarah Champion’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2012-13 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	Starting up and winding up	Total
2012-13	115	£17,152	£7,156	£7,927	£4,686	£5,689	£42,611
2013-14	297	£104,933	£20,719	£19,674	£13,123	£231	£158,681
2014-15	235	£154,597	£20,101	£18,423	£15,783	—	£208,905
2015-16	191	£119,265	£19,801	£15,884	£12,177	—	£167,127
2016-17	187	£141,362	£20,190	£19,661	£10,029	—	£191,241
2017-18	163	£123,646	£20,473	£21,426	£6,203	—	£171,748
2018-19	167	£121,934	£17,245	£22,215	£10,171	—	£171,566
2019-20	215	£132,843	£23,277	£21,624	£9,883	—	£187,628
2020-21	173	£130,582	£22,837	£21,891	£1,669	—	£176,979
2021-22	185	£157,212	£23,857	£22,694	£9,525	—	£213,288
2022-23	187	£167,100	£20,371	£23,534	£9,360	—	£220,365
2023-24	217	£190,246	£27,683	£25,742	£10,221	—	£253,892
2024-25	186	£229,402	£22,961	£27,139	£11,689	—	£291,191
2025-26	72	£143	£23,593	£1,168	—	—	£24,905

A year in which Sarah Champion 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.

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Bought-in services	1	£143

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Stationery & printing	13	£8,485
Postage & couriers	4	£4,231
Software & applications	7	£3,491
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	12	£1,870
Equipment - purchase	8	£1,476
Website hosting and design	4	£872

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council tax	1	£763
Moving Fees	1	£240
Utilities	3	£165

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.

Date	Category	Cost type	Description	Claimed	Paid
25 February 2026	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	PiP Postage	£3,980	£3,980
27 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Constituent PiP letter	£3,432	£3,432
20 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	WWW.BRAILSFORDPRINTERS	£1,716	£1,716
1 February 2026	Office Costs	Software & applications	Yearly subscription to Caseworker software	£1,476	£1,476
25 March 2025	Accommodation	Council tax	Council tax 25-26	£763	£763
5 March 2026	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Rotherham Advertiser PiP	£696	£696
5 June 2025	Office Costs	Recruitment Services &Costs	GUARDIAN NEWS & MEDIA	£690	£690
29 May 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	KAPWING PRO PLAN	£588	£588
15 January 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	Elected technologies [200011782-456]	£527	£527
11 November 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	AMZNMKTPLACE [***]	£411	£411
11 July 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Constituency letters	£410	£410
17 November 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	AMAZON [***]	£404	£404
29 October 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Printer, photocopier & scanner	£397	£397
15 January 2026	Office Costs	Software & applications	SURVEYMONKEY EUROPE UC	£396	£396
2 September 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories	£390	£390

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 Sarah Champion 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Sarah Champion’s register of interests and votes · Sources