MPs’ business costs

Ed Miliband

IPSA paid £2,515,008 against 1,167 published rows for Ed Miliband between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Doncaster North 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, 2015-16

82 claims, £170,649 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.	5	£135,989	79.7%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	39	£17,372	10.2%
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.	37	£12,728	7.5%
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	£4,561	2.7%

Every year in the register

Ed Miliband’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	69	£56,571	£9,631	£8,205	£626	—	£75,032
2011-12	82	£93,747	£15,734	£8,120	£850	—	£118,451
2012-13	80	£114,596	£12,009	£10,715	£1,201	—	£138,520
2013-14	71	£103,295	£10,350	£12,575	£1,411	—	£127,630
2014-15	63	£108,777	£11,130	£12,825	£434	—	£133,166
2015-16	82	£135,989	£17,372	£12,728	£4,561	—	£170,649
2016-17	56	£130,133	£15,425	£8,634	£12,037	£594	£166,822
2017-18	61	£138,241	£16,804	£7,954	£8,621	—	£171,619
2018-19	67	£117,620	£17,975	£10,588	£9,667	—	£155,850
2019-20	87	£145,481	£18,220	£8,799	£11,188	—	£183,690
2020-21	87	£154,793	£20,525	£8,033	£1,095	—	£184,446
2021-22	76	£166,841	£14,881	£9,625	£5,871	—	£197,218
2022-23	72	£196,511	£18,122	£9,528	£5,406	—	£229,566
2023-24	93	£185,687	£20,674	£12,584	£8,376	—	£227,321
2024-25	67	£183,826	£21,441	£8,710	£6,869	—	£220,845
2025-26	54	£350	£9,546	£4,285	—	—	£14,181

A year in which Ed Miliband 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, 2015-16

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£131,822
Professional Services (Staff.)	4	£4,167

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	12	£7,200
Professional Services: Direct	1	£4,800
Stationery Purchase	9	£2,266
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	3	£941
Const Office Electricity	6	£840
Business Rates	1	£762

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	14	£9,968
Council Tax	9	£1,259
Electricity	4	£1,079
Water	1	£759
Telephone Usage/Rental	8	£276
Budget Repayment (Accomm.)	1	£-612

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£4,561

Largest claims, 2015-16

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 2016	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2015-16 year	£131,822	£131,822
30 June 2015	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	PRS	£4,800	£4,800
31 March 2016	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2015-16	£4,561	£4,561
6 June 2015	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Banner	£1,817	£1,817
13 July 2015	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Communications Support	£1,667	£1,667
15 October 2015	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Communications Support Oct 15	£833	£833
13 September 2015	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Communications support Sept 15	£833	£833
13 August 2015	Staffing	Professional Services (Staff.)	Communications support August	£833	£833
27 January 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£825	£825
25 December 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£825	£825
25 November 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£825	£825
27 October 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£825	£825
24 September 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£825	£825
27 August 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£825	£825
27 July 2015	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£825	£825

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 Ed Miliband 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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