MPs’ business costs

Graham Stringer

IPSA paid £2,101,251 against 1,699 published rows for Graham Stringer between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Blackley and Broughton BC, then Blackley and Middleton South 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, 2025-26

59 claims, £23,969 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.23£3,89016.2%
AccommodationThe 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.36£20,08083.8%

Every year in the register

Graham Stringer’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelTotal
2010-1179£77,764£15,553£10,747£5,727£109,791
2011-1283£108,387£13,196£13,680£10,211£145,474
2012-13110£115,750£18,131£12,380£11,201£157,461
2013-14143£114,550£15,984£13,880£12,504£156,918
2014-15115£103,591£17,215£13,650£15,495£149,951
2015-16108£99,658£17,671£14,776£12,249£144,355
2016-17104£88,162£16,925£16,050£14,783£135,920
2017-18107£95,074£16,195£12,742£9,707£133,717
2018-19100£95,108£20,142£15,129£13,397£143,777
2019-20118£66,343£17,362£13,733£12,797£110,235
2020-2193£83,506£14,917£8,004£10,524£116,952
2021-22143£84,145£17,761£16,092£14,577£132,575
2022-23102£89,821£17,612£13,315£12,087£132,836
2023-24122£98,028£16,237£16,675£15,813£146,753
2024-25113£113,306£13,152£18,931£15,178£160,567
2025-2659£3,890£20,080£23,969

A year in which Graham Stringer 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.

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Newspapers, journals, magazines2£894
Software & applications1£738
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage4£668
Stationery & printing3£627
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries12£600
Insurance - contents1£362

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Hotel - London36£20,080

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
23 October 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 18-22 october 2025£1,100£1,100
21 November 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 17-20 november 2025£880£880
16 May 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 12-15 may 2025£880£880
20 June 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster£796£796
7 November 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£738£738
11 September 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 8-10 September 2025£691£691
3 July 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 30 june to 2 july 2025£678£678
10 July 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westtminster 7-9 july 2025£675£675
18 December 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 15-17 december 2025£660£660
11 December 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 8-10 december 2025£660£660
4 December 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel while at westminster 1-3 december 2025£660£660
27 November 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 24-26 november 2025£660£660
13 November 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 10-12 november 2025£660£660
10 November 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 27-29 october 2025£660£660
6 November 2025AccommodationHotel - Londonhotel stay while at westminster 3-5 november 2025£660£660

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 Graham Stringer 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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