MPs’ business costs
Jen Craft
IPSA paid £211,630 against 193 published rows for Jen Craft between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Thurrock 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
50 claims, £18,302 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. | 3 | £2,310 | 12.6% |
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 47 | £15,992 | 87.4% |
Every year in the register
Jen Craft’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2024-25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 143 | £158,334 | £31,103 | £3,891 | £193,328 |
| 2025-26 | 50 | £2,310 | £15,992 | — | £18,302 |
A year in which Jen Craft 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.
Staffing
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Recruitment Services &Costs | 2 | £1,170 |
| Training - staff | 1 | £1,140 |
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment - purchase | 1 | £3,599 |
| Software & applications | 7 | £3,166 |
| Stationery & printing | 11 | £2,610 |
| Website hosting and design | 1 | £2,346 |
| Business rates | 4 | £1,452 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 10 | £1,366 |
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.
| Date | Category | Cost type | Description | Claimed | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 May 2025 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment | £3,599 | £3,599 |
| 27 March 2025 | Office Costs | Website hosting and design | Website build and design | £2,346 | £2,346 |
| 4 August 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | Elected technology Caseworker | £1,476 | £1,476 |
| 23 March 2026 | Staffing | Training - staff | Team Training | £1,140 | £1,140 |
| 10 November 2025 | Staffing | Recruitment Services &Costs | HIVE recruitment fee for caseworker [***][***][***] | £900 | £900 |
| 8 March 2025 | Office Costs | Business rates | Business rates 25/26 for Constituency Office [200011805-233] | £511 | £511 |
| 6 January 2026 | Office Costs | Business rates | Business Rates - Office [***][***][***] | £489 | £489 |
| 13 October 2024 | Office Costs | Software & applications | Annual subscription to caseworker software [200011805-234] | £446 | £446 |
| 21 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA March 2026 | £408 | £408 |
| 9 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA March 2026 | £408 | £408 |
| 4 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA March 2026 | £408 | £408 |
| 19 June 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | SURVEYMONK T [***] | £396 | £396 |
| 20 March 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | Canva subscription for 4 staff [200011805-236] | £348 | £348 |
| 4 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA March 2026 | £332 | £332 |
| 5 July 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | Photosymbols account to make easy read leaflets | £330 | £330 |
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 Jen Craft 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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