MPs’ business costs

Mr Calvin Bailey

IPSA paid £190,489 against 75 published rows for Mr Calvin Bailey between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Leyton and Wanstead 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, 2025-26

15 claims, £3,793 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
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	15	£3,793	100.0%

Every year in the register

Mr Calvin Bailey’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2024-25 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	Total
2024-25	60	£168,054	£18,578	£64	£186,696
2025-26	15	—	£3,793	—	£3,793

A year in which Mr Calvin Bailey 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, 2025-26

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

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Software & applications	2	£1,746
Advertising and contact cards	3	£984
Stationery & printing	6	£613
Equipment - purchase	1	£250
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	3	£200

Largest claims, 2025-26

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
20 June 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
28 July 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	WVD/SWVG	£540	£540
16 December 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	PAYPAL [***]	£300	£300
21 July 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	Canva Application for Graphic Design	£270	£270
14 September 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£250	£250
18 September 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner October 2025	£184	£184
8 July 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	INSTANTPRINT	£144	£144
30 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2026	£123	£123
14 November 2025	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£90	£90
30 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2026	£85	£85
3 June 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	PAYPAL ALEX AITKEN	£83	£83
4 June 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	INSTANTPRINT	£79	£79
28 March 2026	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£60	£60
3 July 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	WWW.AMAZON. [***]	£59	£59
25 June 2025	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£50	£50

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 Mr Calvin Bailey 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Mr Calvin Bailey’s register of interests and votes · Sources