MPs’ business costs

John Healey

IPSA paid £3,345,360 against 3,954 published rows for John Healey between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Wentworth and Dearne CC, then Rawmarsh and Conisbrough CC. 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

91 claims, £22,446 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.	90	£20,977	93.5%
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.	1	£1,469	6.5%

Every year in the register

John Healey’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	Accommodation	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	250	£85,840	£19,152	£15,532	£11,100	—	£131,624
2011-12	313	£112,197	£21,083	£18,462	£13,924	£70	£165,735
2012-13	325	£133,033	£25,309	£22,060	£15,753	£696	£196,851
2013-14	277	£136,080	£22,560	£20,730	£11,718	—	£191,088
2014-15	306	£138,600	£23,442	£18,899	£12,071	—	£193,012
2015-16	271	£139,797	£22,534	£20,600	£12,268	—	£195,199
2016-17	226	£156,514	£23,378	£20,503	£14,467	—	£214,861
2017-18	227	£144,875	£23,367	£22,396	£8,807	—	£199,445
2018-19	239	£145,217	£21,852	£22,592	£14,016	—	£203,677
2019-20	253	£155,276	£25,661	£22,449	£13,678	£276	£217,340
2020-21	222	£188,418	£38,146	£21,055	£6,286	£1,226	£255,131
2021-22	235	£200,526	£25,758	£23,025	£10,827	—	£260,136
2022-23	231	£221,331	£24,246	£23,311	£12,733	—	£281,621
2023-24	281	£227,666	£34,420	£22,558	£11,884	—	£296,527
2024-25	207	£232,001	£29,852	£25,325	£10,015	£23,475	£320,668
2025-26	91	—	£20,977	£1,469	—	—	£22,446

A year in which John Healey 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
Utilities	20	£5,189
Equipment - hire	4	£2,021
Stationery & printing	14	£1,965
Cleaning services	4	£1,664
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	5	£1,643
Postage & couriers	4	£1,577

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council tax	1	£1,469

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
29 April 2025	Accommodation	Council tax	Westminster council tax 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026	£1,469	£1,469
28 January 2026	Office Costs	Equipment - hire	Printer, photocopier & scanner	£913	£913
21 October 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	Elected Technologies Caseworker.MP annual renewal from 1 Nov 2025	£738	£738
31 October 2025	Office Costs	Cleaning services	Cleaning 29 June to 30 Nov	£704	£704
11 March 2026	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	Royal Mail Door to Door delivery of MP leaflet	£683	£683
6 May 2025	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£588	£588
28 August 2025	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£558	£558
30 October 2025	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£534	£534
3 February 2026	Office Costs	Utilities	Gas	£511	£511
28 April 2025	Office Costs	Insurance - contents	Premierline contents insurance 1 May 2025 to 30 April 2026	£496	£496
24 April 2025	Office Costs	Insurance - contents	Premierline 1 May 2025 to 30 April 2026	£496	£496
6 January 2026	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	Royal Mail freepost licence 1 jan - 31 Dec 2026 annual licence	£467	£467
15 October 2024	Office Costs	Software & applications	Elected Technologies for Caseworker.MP [200011782-510]	£422	£422
8 December 2025	Office Costs	Cleaning services	[*] [] [**] cleaner 29 Dec 2025 to 29 Mar 2026	£416	£416
2 April 2025	Office Costs	Cleaning services	[*] [] [**] cleaning 1 April to 28 June	£416	£416

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

3 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £857 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 John Healey 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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