MPs’ business costs
Jo Stevens
IPSA paid £1,929,006 against 1,221 published rows for Jo Stevens between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Cardiff Central BC, then Cardiff 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, 2025-26
62 claims, £11,444 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 62 | £11,444 | 100.0% |
Every year in the register
Jo Stevens’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 | Miscellaneous | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | 102 | £80,259 | £17,934 | £3,854 | £4,936 | £5,996 | £1,572 | £114,550 |
| 2016-17 | 98 | £137,668 | £21,979 | £2,094 | £8,011 | — | — | £169,752 |
| 2017-18 | 103 | £129,736 | £21,259 | £2,034 | £7,240 | — | £115 | £160,384 |
| 2018-19 | 128 | £144,922 | £23,428 | £5,542 | £9,323 | — | — | £183,215 |
| 2019-20 | 94 | £132,500 | £23,921 | £5,085 | £5,643 | — | — | £167,149 |
| 2020-21 | 113 | £152,863 | £27,753 | £5,186 | £2,219 | — | — | £188,021 |
| 2021-22 | 141 | £171,047 | £28,582 | £3,218 | £5,279 | — | — | £208,126 |
| 2022-23 | 145 | £188,387 | £26,120 | £7,932 | £5,007 | — | — | £227,446 |
| 2023-24 | 126 | £208,497 | £24,692 | £5,896 | £6,235 | — | £912 | £246,232 |
| 2024-25 | 109 | £226,625 | £24,678 | — | £1,385 | — | — | £252,688 |
| 2025-26 | 62 | — | £11,444 | — | — | — | — | £11,444 |
A year in which Jo Stevens 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 type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Business rates | 2 | £2,787 |
| Software & applications | 13 | £2,250 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 12 | £1,502 |
| Utilities | 11 | £1,377 |
| Mobile telephone - equipment purchase | 1 | £844 |
| Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection | 3 | £780 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2025 | Office Costs | Business rates | CARDIFF COUNCIL EPAY | £2,511 | £2,511 |
| 23 May 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £1,476 | £1,476 |
| 8 September 2025 | Office Costs | Mobile telephone - equipment purchase | New Mobile Phone | £844 | £844 |
| 9 December 2025 | Office Costs | Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection | CARDIFF COUNCIL EPAY | £387 | £387 |
| 7 July 2025 | Office Costs | Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection | CARDIFF COUNCIL EPAY | £317 | £317 |
| 15 July 2025 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment | £285 | £285 |
| 15 April 2025 | Office Costs | Business rates | CARDIFF COUNCIL EPAY | £276 | £276 |
| 15 April 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Dual Fuel | £244 | £244 |
| 3 May 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Dual Fuel | £243 | £243 |
| 3 May 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Dual Fuel | £243 | £243 |
| 9 December 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Dual Fuel | £219 | £219 |
| 12 January 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | AMAZON [***] | £205 | £205 |
| 22 May 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline | £182 | £182 |
| 4 April 2025 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £180 | £180 |
| 20 October 2025 | Office Costs | TV licence | TVLICENSING.CO.UK | £175 | £175 |
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 Jo Stevens 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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