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, 2017-18

407 claims, £194,002 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.	299	£134,764	69.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	76	£19,929	10.3%
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.	31	£33,193	17.1%
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	£6,115	3.2%

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, 2017-18

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£127,712
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£4,800
Food & Drink Volunteer	264	£1,206
Public Tr UND Volunteer	33	£1,046

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	14	£13,542
Stationery Purchase	32	£2,724
Other Equip Purchase	5	£1,173
Const Office Cleaning	9	£934
Internet Usage/Rental	10	£784
Computer SW Purchase	2	£500

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	15	£29,105
Council Tax	10	£2,001
Electricity	3	£953
Service Charges	1	£695
Ground Rent	2	£438

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£6,115

Largest claims, 2017-18

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 2018	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2017-18 year	£127,712	£127,712
31 March 2018	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2017-18	£6,115	£6,115
28 April 2017	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRS	£4,800	£4,800
9 February 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
9 January 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
11 December 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
9 November 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
9 October 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
13 September 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,925	£2,925
16 August 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,250	£2,250
12 July 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
11 June 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
18 May 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	[***]	£1,863	£1,863
11 May 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863
11 April 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,863	£1,863

Claims refused and money repaid, 2017-18

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £12 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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