MPs’ business costs

Ms Stella Creasy

IPSA paid £2,965,731 against 2,101 published rows for Ms Stella Creasy between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Walthamstow 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, 2017-18

132 claims, £162,300 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.	2	£141,957	87.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	129	£19,488	12.0%
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.	1	£856	0.5%

Every year in the register

Ms Stella Creasy’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2010-11 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	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	47	£94,151	£12,664	£21	—	£106,836
2011-12	107	£138,976	£17,449	£474	—	£156,899
2012-13	124	£145,528	£19,965	£320	—	£165,812
2013-14	137	£146,253	£15,751	£746	—	£162,750
2014-15	118	£154,050	£16,560	£238	—	£170,847
2015-16	109	£143,820	£24,045	£124	—	£167,988
2016-17	128	£134,206	£22,608	£686	—	£157,499
2017-18	132	£141,957	£19,488	£856	—	£162,300
2018-19	145	£152,480	£22,046	£642	—	£175,167
2019-20	127	£166,105	£21,271	£381	£22,725	£210,482
2020-21	172	£205,044	£27,509	—	£13,542	£246,095
2021-22	139	£214,632	£26,702	£126	£1,107	£242,566
2022-23	161	£235,782	£26,263	—	—	£262,044
2023-24	209	£243,774	£33,169	£216	—	£277,159
2024-25	187	£264,809	£24,698	£520	—	£290,027
2025-26	59	—	£11,258	—	—	£11,258

A year in which Ms Stella Creasy 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, 2017-18

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£141,922
Staff Training Costs	1	£35

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	14	£5,470
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	32	£4,735
Professional Services	7	£2,007
Computer HW Purchase	2	£1,899
Stationery Purchase	16	£1,552
Install/Maint Office Equip.	1	£500

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£856

Largest claims, 2017-18

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 2018	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2017-18 year	£141,922	£141,922
9 January 2018	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	Computer Purchase	£1,885	£1,885
7 January 2018	Office Costs	Professional Services	Office Costs	£1,200	£1,200
14 November 2017	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	BT Bill Nov 2017	£909	£909
31 March 2018	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2017-18	£856	£856
21 February 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	BT Bill feb 2018, Newspapers	£811	£811
23 August 2017	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	July/august GPC 2017	£759	£759
8 May 2017	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	April/May GPC	£745	£745
6 March 2018	Office Costs	Professional Services	Rental Valuation	£660	£660
8 September 2017	Office Costs	Training MP Staff	GPC Card Expenses	£546	£546
7 September 2017	Office Costs	Install/Maint Office Equip.	Elected Tecnnologies	£500	£500
19 February 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£480	£480
18 January 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£480	£480
18 December 2017	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£480	£480
17 November 2017	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£480	£480

Claims refused and money repaid, 2017-18

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £137 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 Stella Creasy 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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