MPs’ business costs

Jeremy Corbyn

IPSA paid £2,813,874 against 1,275 published rows for Jeremy Corbyn between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Islington North 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, 2012-13

66 claims, £139,584 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.	4	£122,627	87.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	61	£16,423	11.8%
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	£534	0.4%

Every year in the register

Jeremy Corbyn’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.

Year	Claims	Staffing	Office costs	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	38	£98,369	£10,143	—	—	£108,512
2011-12	66	£112,110	£16,959	£1,609	—	£130,678
2012-13	66	£122,627	£16,423	£534	—	£139,584
2013-14	107	£124,723	£15,642	—	£819	£141,184
2014-15	131	£143,919	£15,188	£422	—	£159,529
2015-16	62	£132,130	£15,989	—	—	£148,119
2016-17	151	£147,261	£21,009	—	—	£168,270
2017-18	98	£154,632	£22,260	—	—	£176,892
2018-19	53	£162,079	£19,352	—	£75	£181,506
2019-20	58	£159,505	£17,763	—	—	£177,268
2020-21	102	£202,691	£20,256	£12	—	£222,959
2021-22	85	£213,421	£23,679	—	—	£237,101
2022-23	80	£230,313	£22,418	—	—	£252,731
2023-24	111	£251,281	£30,047	—	—	£281,328
2024-25	59	£265,853	£20,165	—	—	£286,018
2025-26	8	—	£2,194	—	—	£2,194

A year in which Jeremy Corbyn 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, 2012-13

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£122,570
Public Tr UND Int/Volntr	1	£20
Public Tr RAIL Other Int/Volnt	1	£19
Food & Drink Int/Volntr	1	£18

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	6	£9,904
Computer HW Purchase	11	£2,233
Stationery Purchase	6	£950
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	22	£910
Advertising	3	£861
Venue Hire Surgery/Meeting	3	£813

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£534

Largest claims, 2012-13

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 2013	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2012-13 year	£122,570	£122,570
19 March 2013	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£1,981	£1,981
1 October 2012	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Fourth quarter rent 2012	£1,981	£1,981
31 July 2012	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	08/01/2012	£1,981	£1,981
1 April 2012	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Apr-May 2012	£1,981	£1,981
19 December 2012	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£1,940	£1,940
21 March 2013	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	New computer	£793	£793
31 March 2013	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2012-13	£534	£534
3 March 2013	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Toner for Dell Printer	£423	£423
5 March 2013	Office Costs	Venue Hire Surgery/Meeting	—	£400	£400
15 March 2013	Office Costs	Training MP Staff	CFL - Computing for Labour	£398	£398
13 December 2012	Office Costs	Advertising	Christmas continued	£366	£366
4 March 2013	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	01/03/2013	£325	£325
28 November 2012	Office Costs	Advertising	Christmas continued	£315	£315
3 December 2012	Office Costs	Venue Hire Surgery/Meeting	—	£300	£300

Claims refused and money repaid, 2012-13

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £212 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 Jeremy Corbyn 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Jeremy Corbyn’s register of interests and votes · Sources