MPs’ business costs

Imran Hussain

IPSA paid £2,206,716 against 1,782 published rows for Imran Hussain between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Bradford East 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, 2016-17

288 claims, £177,893 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.	156	£121,159	68.1%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	92	£21,860	12.3%
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.	37	£24,869	14.0%
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.	1	£8,107	4.6%
Starting up and winding up	The one-off costs of opening an office on election and of closing one on leaving. These fall in the years around a general election and are absent from the rest.	2	£1,898	1.1%

Every year in the register

Imran Hussain’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2015-16 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	Starting up and winding up	Total
2015-16	113	£101,465	£18,617	£20,941	£4,898	£3,854	£149,775
2016-17	288	£121,159	£21,860	£24,869	£8,107	£1,898	£177,893
2017-18	407	£134,764	£19,929	£33,193	£6,115	—	£194,002
2018-19	179	£141,617	£16,605	£37,596	£6,705	—	£202,523
2019-20	118	£142,832	£20,164	£36,701	£4,892	—	£204,589
2020-21	63	£124,160	£26,655	£37,312	£444	—	£188,571
2021-22	75	£133,636	£24,730	£37,260	£7,092	—	£202,718
2022-23	137	£176,575	£24,042	£34,526	£11,956	—	£247,100
2023-24	194	£213,076	£30,808	£46,326	£16,715	—	£306,924
2024-25	155	£230,987	£29,171	£44,375	£9,904	—	£314,437
2025-26	53	£2,860	£10,550	£4,775	—	—	£18,185

A year in which Imran Hussain 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, 2016-17

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£115,118
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£4,800
Public Tr UND Volunteer	40	£830
Food & Drink Volunteer	114	£411

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	13	£12,500
Business Rates	7	£4,807
Stationery Purchase	40	£2,398
Const Office Cleaning	9	£674
Internet Usage/Rental	8	£609
Computer HW Purchase	4	£213

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	19	£21,708
Council Tax	3	£1,721
Electricity	14	£1,140
Service Charges	1	£300

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£8,107

Starting up and winding up

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Comp HW Purch StartUp	1	£1,788
Office Alterations StartUp	1	£110

Largest claims, 2016-17

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 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£115,118	£115,118
31 March 2017	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2016-17	£8,107	£8,107
29 April 2016	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRS	£4,800	£4,800
3 February 2017	Office Costs	Business Rates	February 2017 card	£2,344	£2,344
11 February 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
11 January 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
9 December 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
10 November 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
11 October 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
6 September 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
9 August 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
12 July 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
7 June 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
4 May 2016	Start Up	Comp HW Purch StartUp	May spend card reconciliation	£1,788	£1,788
4 July 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,733	£1,733

Claims refused and money repaid, 2016-17

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £96 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 Imran Hussain 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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