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MPs’ business costs

Sarah Hall

IPSA paid £211,981 against 65 published rows for Sarah Hall between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Warrington South 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

20 claims, £8,818 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.20£8,818100.0%

Every year in the register

Sarah Hall’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 costsAccommodationTravelTotal
2024-2545£158,059£16,258£19,089£9,757£203,162
2025-2620—£8,818——£8,818

A year in which Sarah Hall 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
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage8£3,859
Stationery & printing6£2,346
Software & applications3£1,929
Equipment - purchase2£475
Bought-in services1£209

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
15 June 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsCasework System Renewal£1,476£1,476
31 March 2025Office CostsStationery & printingPrinter Ink£1,143£1,143
22 April 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline & internet package£700£700
6 January 2026Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline & internet package£660£660
11 November 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline & internet package£621£621
16 July 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£621£621
3 April 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline & internet package£620£620
31 March 2025Office CostsStationery & printingPrinter Ink£426£426
28 January 2026Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOffice furniture£405£405
2 April 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline & internet package£325£325
14 September 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsVEED LIMITED£228£228
11 February 2026Office CostsSoftware & applicationsJAMIE£225£225
2 September 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£209£209
13 March 2026Office CostsStationery & printingXMA March 2026£204£204
13 March 2026Office CostsStationery & printingXMA March 2026£204£204

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 Hall 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 Hall’s register of interests and votes · Sources