MPs’ business costs

Julia Buckley

IPSA paid £265,760 against 304 published rows for Julia Buckley between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Shrewsbury 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, 2024-25 to 2025-26

304 claims, £265,760 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	£183,164	68.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	254	£49,847	18.8%
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.	30	£23,157	8.7%
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.	14	£7,254	2.7%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	2	£2,339	0.9%

Every year in the register

Julia Buckley’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	Accommodation	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2024-25	206	£183,164	£30,425	£21,517	£7,254	£1,583	£243,942
2025-26	98	—	£19,422	£1,640	—	£756	£21,818

A year in which Julia Buckley 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, 2024-25 to 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£156,497
Bought-in services	2	£26,500
Working From Home Allowance	1	£167

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Equipment - purchase	17	£10,288
Stationery & printing	136	£8,080
Software & applications	17	£4,890
Recruitment Services &Costs	2	£4,400
Rent	1	£4,081
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	21	£3,518

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	9	£19,393
Council tax	6	£1,511
Utilities	11	£1,209
Hotel - London	2	£780
Cleaning services	2	£263

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	5	£3,879
Hotel - London	2	£2,658
Mileage - car	3	£457
Hotel - UK Not London	1	£195
Subsistence	2	£46
Parking	1	£19

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£1,583
Removals	1	£756

Largest claims, 2024-25 to 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
31 March 2025	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year	£156,497	£156,497
1 April 2025	Staffing	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£24,000	£24,000
31 March 2025	Office Costs	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25	£4,081	£4,081
1 May 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Sundries	£3,915	£3,915
2 December 2024	Office Costs	Recruitment Services &Costs	HIVE SUPPORT LTD	£3,500	£3,500
25 March 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Office furniture	£3,120	£3,120
3 October 2024	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£3,000	£3,000
11 March 2025	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,750	£2,750
11 February 2025	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,750	£2,750
9 January 2025	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,750	£2,750
10 December 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,750	£2,750
12 November 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,750	£2,750
10 October 2024	Accommodation	Rent	—	£2,750	£2,750
5 September 2024	Accommodation	Rent	[***] - First month´s rent -	£2,750	£2,750
31 March 2025	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-25	£2,563	£2,563

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25 to 2025-26

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £32 not paid and £477 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 Julia Buckley 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 · Julia Buckley’s register of interests and votes · Sources