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, 2025-26
98 claims, £21,818 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. | 85 | £19,422 | 89.0% |
| 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. | 12 | £1,640 | 7.5% |
| Miscellaneous | Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19. | 1 | £756 | 3.5% |
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, 2025-26
The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment - purchase | 6 | £3,992 |
| Stationery & printing | 17 | £3,264 |
| Software & applications | 14 | £3,194 |
| Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | 13 | £2,025 |
| Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | 5 | £1,639 |
| Hospitality | 6 | £1,342 |
Accommodation
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Utilities | 7 | £735 |
| Council tax | 3 | £642 |
| Cleaning services | 2 | £263 |
Miscellaneous
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Removals | 1 | £756 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2025 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Sundries | £3,915 | £3,915 |
| 8 July 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £1,476 | £1,476 |
| 7 April 2025 | Miscellaneous | Removals | WHG REMOVALS LTD | £756 | £756 |
| 13 August 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | VIKING | £594 | £594 |
| 28 April 2025 | Office Costs | Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | Danny Treherne - Making good Wyle Cop office before end of lease | £514 | £514 |
| 8 July 2025 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £508 | £508 |
| 11 November 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Electricity | £488 | £488 |
| 24 July 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Internet | £477 | £477 |
| 1 August 2025 | Office Costs | Hospitality | JENNYS OUTSIDE CATERER | £470 | £470 |
| 23 July 2024 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200012008-1] | £438 | £438 |
| 30 April 2025 | Office Costs | Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | QUADIENT UK LTD | £429 | £429 |
| 15 December 2025 | Accommodation | Council tax | WWW.WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK | £428 | £428 |
| 20 March 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 [200012008-4] | £411 | £411 |
| 22 December 2025 | Office Costs | Bought-in services | Comms & Media | £400 | £400 |
| 16 April 2025 | Office Costs | Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | Severn Handyman - Setting up of new Constituency Office | £390 | £390 |
Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26
1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 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.
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