MPs’ business costs

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

IPSA paid £1,371,954 against 340 published rows for Bell Ribeiro-Addy between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Streatham BC, then Clapham and Brixton Hill 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, 2020-21

93 claims, £239,168 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	£199,274	83.3%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	91	£39,809	16.6%
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	£85	0.0%

Every year in the register

Bell Ribeiro-Addy’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 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
2019-20	13	£46,077	£9,849	—	—	£55,926
2020-21	93	£199,274	£39,809	£85	—	£239,168
2021-22	52	£212,534	£28,133	—	—	£240,667
2022-23	50	£227,000	£28,084	—	—	£255,085
2023-24	64	£251,210	£31,485	—	£550	£283,245
2024-25	46	£268,944	£25,728	£413	—	£295,085
2025-26	22	—	£2,779	—	—	£2,779

A year in which Bell Ribeiro-Addy 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, 2020-21

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£199,274

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	5	£24,300
Equipment - purchase	30	£5,258
Cleaning services	7	£1,826
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,707
Website hosting and design	2	£1,620
Stationery & printing	11	£1,353

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Taxi	1	£85

Largest claims, 2020-21

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 2021	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year	£199,274	£199,274
6 January 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£5,100	£5,100
4 October 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£4,800	£4,800
3 July 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£4,800	£4,800
15 April 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£4,800	£4,800
15 April 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£4,800	£4,800
29 May 2020	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories	£2,423	£2,423
31 March 2021	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for 2020-21	£1,707	£1,707
2 December 2020	Office Costs	Website hosting and design	Website Maintenance	£1,080	£1,080
14 April 2020	Office Costs	Training - staff	PCS REAL CLEAR	£800	£800
14 April 2020	Office Costs	Cleaning services	[***]	£780	£780
17 August 2020	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Office furniture	£768	£768
14 May 2020	Office Costs	Cleaning services	[*] [*]	£768	£768
14 May 2020	Office Costs	Cleaning services	[*] [*]	£768	£768
22 December 2020	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£600	£600

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 Bell Ribeiro-Addy 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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