MPs’ business costs

Tonia Antoniazzi

IPSA paid £1,927,067 against 1,090 published rows for Tonia Antoniazzi between 2017-18 and 2025-26 as the member for Gower 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, 2018-19

99 claims, £211,516 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.	4	£153,571	72.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	67	£24,663	11.7%
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.	27	£24,581	11.6%
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	£8,701	4.1%

Every year in the register

Tonia Antoniazzi’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	Total
2017-18	105	£113,476	£21,385	£18,866	£7,178	£160,905
2018-19	99	£153,571	£24,663	£24,581	£8,701	£211,516
2019-20	134	£155,378	£24,476	£25,350	£10,239	£215,442
2020-21	109	£186,441	£23,864	£21,579	£3,459	£235,344
2021-22	111	£185,733	£22,333	£20,157	£8,921	£237,144
2022-23	170	£186,419	£21,685	£28,279	£11,039	£247,423
2023-24	164	£222,406	£27,112	£23,694	£10,086	£283,297
2024-25	133	£250,359	£30,187	£24,661	£10,219	£315,426
2025-26	65	—	£18,883	£1,686	—	£20,569

A year in which Tonia Antoniazzi 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, 2018-19

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£153,259
Health and Welfare Costs	1	£312
Pooled Services: Direct	2	£0

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	5	£7,235
Professional Services: Direct	1	£4,800
Professional Services	3	£2,253
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	5	£1,799
Other Equip Purchase	1	£1,560
IT/Other Equipment Hire	6	£1,301

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	13	£21,996
Council Tax	3	£1,769
Service Charges	1	£425
Electricity	7	£334
Internet	3	£57

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£8,701

Largest claims, 2018-19

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 2019	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2018-19 year	£153,259	£153,259
31 March 2019	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2018-19	£8,701	£8,701
1 April 2018	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	PRS	£4,800	£4,800
16 June 2018	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRS	£3,600	£3,600
22 January 2019	Office Costs	Professional Services	Professional Services	£2,000	£2,000
24 September 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
27 June 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
1 April 2018	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
29 January 2019	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
19 December 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
22 November 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
24 October 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
25 September 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
25 August 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842
25 July 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,842	£1,842

Claims refused and money repaid, 2018-19

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £308 not paid and £0 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 Tonia Antoniazzi 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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