MPs’ business costs

Carla Denyer

IPSA paid £237,466 against 156 published rows for Carla Denyer between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Bristol Central 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

33 claims, £7,705 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.	21	£4,708	61.1%
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.	8	£2,169	28.2%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	4	£828	10.8%

Every year in the register

Carla Denyer’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	Accommodation	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2024-25	123	£184,733	£29,615	£12,243	£3,170	—	£229,761
2025-26	33	—	£4,708	£2,169	—	£828	£7,705

A year in which Carla Denyer 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	3	£1,763
Stationery & printing	5	£853
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	4	£503
Training - staff	1	£471
Bought-in services	1	£378
Equipment - purchase	2	£234

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council tax	2	£1,578
Utilities	6	£591

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removals	4	£828

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
20 March 2025	Accommodation	Council tax	L B SOUTHWARK - INT [200011725-7553] [200011800-70]	£1,408	£1,408
14 July 2025	Office Costs	Training - staff	PAYPAL PARLITRAINI	£471	£471
11 January 2026	Miscellaneous	Removals	Balance	£413	£413
11 June 2025	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£378	£378
3 August 2025	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£225	£225
4 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA March 2026	£204	£204
27 February 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA March 2026	£204	£204
20 February 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA March 2026	£204	£204
26 January 2026	Accommodation	Council tax	L B SOUTHWARK - INT	£170	£170
20 February 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA March 2026	£166	£166
27 August 2025	Miscellaneous	Removals	QUICKMANANDVAN.CO.UK	£165	£165
24 July 2025	Office Costs	Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	CEX	£153	£153
23 March 2026	Office Costs	Software & applications	Kapwing	£150	£150
26 August 2025	Miscellaneous	Removals	ZERO WASTE GROUP	£147	£147

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 Carla Denyer 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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