MPs’ business costs

Chris Bryant

IPSA paid £2,911,335 against 1,779 published rows for Chris Bryant between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Rhondda CC, then Rhondda and Ogmore CC. 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

45 claims, £19,223 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.	4	£1,950	10.1%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	40	£10,403	54.1%
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.	1	£6,870	35.7%

Every year in the register

Chris Bryant’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	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	114	£90,223	£11,891	£15,558	£8,208	£1,700	£127,580
2011-12	126	£105,343	£12,447	£19,774	£9,475	—	£147,039
2012-13	112	£119,456	£13,668	£19,915	£10,643	—	£163,682
2013-14	128	£119,773	£15,287	£20,061	£10,823	—	£165,944
2014-15	90	£118,594	£12,853	£20,553	£8,133	—	£160,134
2015-16	116	£134,669	£15,014	£9,862	£9,271	£1,758	£170,574
2016-17	108	£142,720	£18,242	£8,735	£12,174	—	£181,871
2017-18	109	£131,119	£21,828	£8,849	£10,881	—	£172,677
2018-19	92	£139,343	£24,198	£5,150	£12,955	£650	£182,297
2019-20	144	£135,997	£24,849	£5,266	£16,779	—	£182,892
2020-21	96	£172,596	£18,425	£10,409	£4,315	—	£205,746
2021-22	131	£177,519	£21,720	£6,390	£10,157	—	£215,786
2022-23	136	£223,681	£17,185	—	£12,377	—	£253,242
2023-24	144	£229,252	£30,776	£6,329	£19,169	—	£285,526
2024-25	88	£238,344	£21,255	£6,630	£10,893	—	£277,121
2025-26	45	£1,950	£10,403	£6,870	—	—	£19,223

A year in which Chris Bryant 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.

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Training - staff	4	£1,950

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Software & applications	8	£2,514
Advertising and contact cards	6	£1,610
Stationery & printing	10	£1,322
Service charge & ground Rent	1	£1,250
Equipment - purchase	2	£1,169
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	5	£1,090

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Service charge & ground Rent	1	£6,870

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 March 2025	Accommodation	Service charge & ground Rent	service charge on London property - the total amount is for calendar year 2025 and is already paid	£6,870	£6,870
15 July 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
15 July 2025	Office Costs	Service charge & ground Rent	Service charge for 9 Compton Road	£1,250	£1,250
19 December 2025	Staffing	Training - staff	Caseworker Training	£900	£900
29 June 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories	£800	£800
16 February 2026	Office Costs	Insurance - contents	Insurance for 9 Compton Road	£699	£699
3 December 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Surgery Advert - Pitchside Board and Programme	£450	£450
8 April 2025	Staffing	Training - staff	Staff training	£450	£450
12 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2026	£442	£442
4 July 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	SURVEYMONKEYCORE	£408	£408
6 January 2026	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£369	£369
3 September 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Porth RFC - match day prgoramme and pitch side board surgery adverts	£360	£360
9 March 2026	Staffing	Training - staff	Mentoring	£300	£300
25 September 2025	Staffing	Training - staff	Staff Training	£300	£300
29 April 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Penygriag RFC Surgery Advert 25-26	£300	£300

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 Chris Bryant 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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