MPs’ business costs

Dame Angela Eagle

IPSA paid £2,717,547 against 1,297 published rows for Dame Angela Eagle between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Wallasey 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, 2010-11

80 claims, £109,559 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	£86,185	78.7%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	55	£14,486	13.2%
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.	23	£3,714	3.4%
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	£5,174	4.7%

Every year in the register

Dame Angela Eagle’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	Accommodation	Travel	Total
2010-11	80	£86,185	£14,486	£3,714	£5,174	£109,559
2011-12	109	£114,806	£16,378	£4,159	£5,883	£141,227
2012-13	105	£130,227	£16,066	£5,320	£5,249	£156,862
2013-14	92	£138,305	£19,698	£3,639	£5,164	£166,806
2014-15	102	£137,482	£22,087	£5,031	£7,067	£171,667
2015-16	85	£135,612	£23,323	£4,477	£5,582	£168,994
2016-17	80	£135,711	£21,030	£5,224	£7,285	£169,250
2017-18	73	£132,748	£16,835	£4,961	£4,903	£159,447
2018-19	89	£137,926	£19,720	£5,034	£5,684	£168,363
2019-20	109	£140,355	£22,877	£5,333	£6,039	£174,605
2020-21	77	£161,489	£21,402	£5,149	£1,706	£189,746
2021-22	42	£152,573	£24,211	£5,480	£3,939	£186,203
2022-23	77	£195,412	£21,628	£5,176	£4,681	£226,896
2023-24	78	£221,369	£26,439	£6,330	£3,735	£257,873
2024-25	61	£223,883	£23,319	£6,741	£3,923	£257,867
2025-26	38	—	£5,315	£6,870	—	£12,185

A year in which Dame Angela Eagle 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, 2010-11

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£86,185

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	9	£6,753
Printer Hire	3	£1,643
Stationery Purchase	15	£1,399
Install/Maint Office Equip.	1	£944
Advertising	2	£732
Printer Purchase	1	£709

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Service Charges	2	£1,263
Council Tax	5	£850
Water	1	£457
Other Fuel	3	£411
Telephone Usage/Rental	6	£280
Electricity	3	£173

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£5,174

Largest claims, 2010-11

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 2011	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2010-11 year	£86,185	£86,185
31 March 2011	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2010-11	£5,174	£5,174
11 November 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constituency Office Rent	£1,910	£1,910
6 January 2011	Office Costs	Install/Maint Office Equip.	Parly Riso service contract	£944	£944
1 March 2011	Office Costs	Printer Purchase	office supplies March 11	£709	£709
8 March 2011	Accommodation	Service Charges	Service Charge G rent Feb 11	£673	£673
21 September 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Office rent May 2010	£656	£656
25 February 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£637	£637
26 January 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£637	£637
24 December 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£637	£637
1 December 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Const Office Rent Dec 2010	£637	£637
16 September 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Const Office Rent August	£636	£636
20 September 2010	Accommodation	Service Charges	Overnight accom May-Sept 2010	£590	£590
18 October 2010	Office Costs	Printer Hire	Siemens invoice	£560	£560
31 January 2011	Office Costs	Printer Hire	Office Supplies Feb 11	£547	£547

Claims refused and money repaid, 2010-11

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £14 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 Dame Angela Eagle 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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