MPs’ business costs

Wes Streeting

IPSA paid £2,262,234 against 1,209 published rows for Wes Streeting between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Ilford North 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, 2019-20

90 claims, £190,218 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.	27	£159,628	83.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	61	£30,266	15.9%
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	£54	0.0%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£269	0.1%

Every year in the register

Wes Streeting’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2015-16 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	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2015-16	90	£133,120	£20,479	—	£5,889	£1,050	£160,538
2016-17	110	£147,316	£25,374	—	—	—	£172,690
2017-18	150	£160,976	£24,760	—	—	—	£185,736
2018-19	150	£164,460	£30,164	£1,727	—	—	£196,351
2019-20	90	£159,628	£30,266	£54	—	£269	£190,218
2020-21	83	£202,046	£26,514	—	—	—	£228,560
2021-22	101	£217,283	£29,730	£164	—	—	£247,177
2022-23	141	£236,414	£34,467	£74	—	—	£270,956
2023-24	99	£252,415	£34,208	—	—	£3,340	£289,962
2024-25	136	£271,823	£35,115	—	—	£389	£307,326
2025-26	59	—	£12,721	—	—	—	£12,721

A year in which Wes Streeting 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, 2019-20

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£156,080
Pooled staffing services	3	£2,700
Volunteer - agreed arrangement costs	23	£849

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	6	£20,200
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	1	£5,310
Equipment - purchase	10	£1,829
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	6	£730
Stationery & printing	26	£705
Software & applications	1	£500

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Taxi	1	£54

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removals	1	£269

Largest claims, 2019-20

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 2020	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2019-20 year	£156,080	£156,080
24 March 2020	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	Office redecoration	£5,310	£5,310
1 April 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£5,050	£5,050
2 January 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£5,050	£5,050
2 October 2019	Office Costs	Rent	Direct rental payment	£5,050	£5,050
3 July 2019	Office Costs	Rent	Direct rental payment	£5,050	£5,050
12 March 2020	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£1,308	£1,308
5 November 2019	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£900	£900
23 July 2019	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£900	£900
23 July 2019	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£900	£900
20 June 2019	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£500	£500
6 February 2020	Miscellaneous	Removals	PREMIER MOVES LTD	£269	£269
10 April 2019	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Office furniture	£240	£240
24 September 2019	Office Costs	Insurance - contents	TOWERGATE RISKLINE	£232	£232
12 March 2020	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline	£178	£178

Claims refused and money repaid, 2019-20

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £3,904 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 Wes Streeting 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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