MPs’ business costs

Euan Stainbank

IPSA paid £187,476 against 243 published rows for Euan Stainbank between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Falkirk 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, 2024-25 to 2025-26

243 claims, £187,476 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.	7	£108,404	57.8%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	188	£48,203	25.7%
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.	35	£19,742	10.5%
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.	13	£11,128	5.9%

Every year in the register

Euan Stainbank’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	Total
2024-25	163	£107,804	£28,835	£17,992	£11,128	£165,757
2025-26	80	£600	£19,369	£1,750	—	£21,719

A year in which Euan Stainbank 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, 2024-25 to 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£104,395
Training - staff	5	£2,475
Pooled staffing services	1	£1,533

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Equipment - purchase	32	£9,692
Utilities	39	£6,699
Rent	8	£5,833
Business rates	8	£5,428
Advertising and contact cards	2	£4,197
Software & applications	6	£3,716

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	15	£9,163
Rent	4	£8,026
Council tax	7	£1,838
Moving Fees	1	£471
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	3	£170
Utilities	5	£73

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	4	£8,524
Hotel - London	1	£1,260
Air travel	2	£1,047
Subsistence	3	£222
Mileage - car	1	£54
Other public transport	2	£20

Largest claims, 2024-25 to 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
31 March 2025	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year	£104,395	£104,395
31 March 2025	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-25	£7,205	£7,205
19 September 2024	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	[***] Office Furniture Centre- Euan Stainbank	£5,002	£5,002
31 October 2024	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Advertising board to advertise Euan as local MP and contact details. To be advertised for 1 year.	£3,300	£3,300
11 March 2025	Accommodation	Rent	Rent for London Accommodation April	£2,040	£2,040
10 February 2025	Accommodation	Rent	Rent for March	£2,040	£2,040
13 January 2025	Accommodation	Rent	Rent in advance of February payment	£2,040	£2,040
29 November 2024	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£2,006	£2,006
6 January 2025	Accommodation	Rent	Rent from 02/01/25 - 31/01/25	£1,906	£1,906
28 October 2024	Office Costs	Rent	[***] - Rent for 01/09/2024 - 31/10/2024	£1,667	£1,667
25 February 2025	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,533	£1,533
15 September 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
4 February 2026	Office Costs	Business rates	FALKIRK COUNCIL	£1,400	£1,400
31 March 2025	Staff Travel	Hotel - London	Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-25	£1,260	£1,260
31 March 2025	Staff Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-25	£1,104	£1,104

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25 to 2025-26

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £323 repaid. A refusal is not a finding of wrongdoing — most are claims outside the scheme’s rules, or submitted without the evidence IPSA requires — and it is shown because leaving it out would show only the money that went out.

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 Euan Stainbank 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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