MPs’ business costs

Feryal Clark

IPSA paid £1,198,162 against 594 published rows for Feryal Clark between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Enfield North 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, 2022-23

116 claims, £238,256 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.	19	£212,450	89.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	94	£25,661	10.8%
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.	3	£145	0.1%

Every year in the register

Feryal Clark’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 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	Travel	Total
2019-20	4	£28,874	£5,550	—	£34,424
2020-21	102	£179,766	£28,761	—	£208,527
2021-22	87	£179,609	£24,510	£20	£204,139
2022-23	116	£212,450	£25,661	£145	£238,256
2023-24	134	£223,459	£28,211	£4	£251,674
2024-25	105	£223,603	£23,477	—	£247,080
2025-26	46	—	£14,063	—	£14,063

A year in which Feryal Clark 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, 2022-23

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£211,394
Training - staff	2	£814
Volunteer - agreed arrangement costs	16	£242

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	4	£10,650
Pooled staffing services	1	£4,200
Utilities	7	£4,055
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	7	£1,310
Software & applications	3	£1,222
Stationery & printing	8	£990

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	1	£97
Other public transport	1	£33
Taxi	1	£16

Largest claims, 2022-23

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 2023	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2022-23 year	£211,394	£211,394
18 May 2022	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£4,200	£4,200
28 March 2023	Office Costs	Rent	—	£2,663	£2,663
27 December 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£2,663	£2,663
27 September 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£2,663	£2,663
28 June 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£2,663	£2,663
27 June 2022	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£1,092	£1,092
13 January 2023	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£948	£948
4 April 2022	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£919	£919
20 October 2022	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£658	£658
15 December 2022	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£600	£600
20 October 2022	Office Costs	Software & applications	WAVE.VIDEO/AGENCY	£522	£522
5 October 2022	Staffing	Training - staff	PAYPAL PARLITRAINI	£439	£439
5 October 2022	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£392	£392
1 April 2022	Staffing	Training - staff	TRAINING WESTMINSTER	£375	£375

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 Feryal Clark 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Feryal Clark’s register of interests and votes · Sources