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, 2025-26

54 claims, £14,181 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.	2	£350	2.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	40	£9,546	67.3%
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.	12	£4,285	30.2%

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, 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Training - staff	2	£350

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Stationery & printing	26	£3,478
Software & applications	5	£2,134
Training - staff	2	£1,975
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	2	£1,086
Equipment - purchase	1	£332
TV licence	1	£175

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council tax	1	£3,286
Utilities	11	£999

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
24 March 2025	Accommodation	Council tax	DONCASTER MBC [200011726-10136] [200011782-529]	£3,286	£3,286
21 November 2025	Office Costs	Training - staff	ELECT AI	£1,800	£1,800
15 May 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
10 September 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£548	£548
11 June 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£538	£538
11 April 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£332	£332
17 January 2026	Office Costs	Software & applications	ADOBE PREMIERE PRO	£263	£263
6 November 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner December 2025	£243	£243
11 August 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner September 2025	£240	£240
20 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2026	£220	£220
17 January 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ADOBE PREMIERE PRO [200011782-528]	£209	£209
27 February 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2026	£185	£185
6 November 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner December 2025	£185	£185
20 February 2026	Office Costs	Training - staff	LARA LLOYD COACHING	£175	£175
23 January 2026	Staffing	Training - staff	LARA LLOYD COACHING	£175	£175

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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