MPs’ business costs

Mr Gregory Campbell

IPSA paid £2,446,407 against 1,294 published rows for Mr Gregory Campbell between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for East Londonderry 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

76 claims, £23,360 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.60£19,14782.0%
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.16£4,21418.0%

Every year in the register

Mr Gregory Campbell’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 costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2010-1138£60,529£4,234£10,223£22,276£97,263
2011-1237£82,908£5,094£7,068£26,500£121,570
2012-1358£87,875£5,040£16,277£22,578£124£131,895
2013-1439£100,171£7,385£18,653£21,629£147,837
2014-1556£107,109£8,961£18,974£20,143£155,187
2015-1696£109,185£17,723£19,866£22,232£169,006
2016-17110£114,480£17,681£19,856£23,762£175,779
2017-18113£118,421£18,154£20,026£23,024£179,625
2018-19107£114,404£18,038£19,855£24,500£176,797
2019-2094£121,715£16,268£20,850£27,885£186,717
2020-2176£114,585£11,996£20,568£12,671£159,820
2021-2281£121,045£15,831£21,010£17,579£175,465
2022-23107£111,354£20,780£22,900£28,391£183,425
2023-2499£113,560£22,002£22,696£23,530£181,788
2024-25107£112,955£20,012£22,981£24,925£180,873
2025-2676£19,147£4,214£23,360

A year in which Mr Gregory Campbell 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
Business rates2£4,344
Utilities13£3,880
Bought-in services5£3,651
Stationery & printing17£2,747
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage11£1,604
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs7£1,053

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Utilities13£2,260
Council tax3£1,954

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
28 April 2025Office CostsBusiness ratesBusiness Rates for both Constituency Offices (Coleraine)£3,001£3,001
28 April 2025Office CostsBusiness ratesBusiness Rates for both Constituency Offices (Limavady)£1,343£1,343
22 September 2025AccommodationCouncil taxLondon Flat Council Tax£1,141£1,141
27 June 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£1,000£1,000
30 September 2025Office CostsInsurance - buildingsColeraine Office Insurance£930£930
26 March 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£870£870
11 June 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesAdministrative services£693£693
1 December 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesAdministrative services£660£660
15 September 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesAdministrative services£660£660
2 April 2025AccommodationCouncil taxLondon Flat Council Tax£652£652
3 March 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesAdministrative services£638£638
7 January 2026Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£436£436
22 April 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£402£402
29 January 2026Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsInformation and Contact Cards£390£390
4 December 2025Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsElectric lighting replacement in Coleraine Office£385£385

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 Mr Gregory Campbell 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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