MPs’ business costs
Dame Karen Bradley
IPSA paid £2,942,498 against 2,135 published rows for Dame Karen Bradley between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Staffordshire Moorlands 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
48 claims, £11,679 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. | 48 | £11,679 | 100.0% |
Every year in the register
Dame Karen Bradley’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 | 241 | £67,059 | £16,470 | £12,118 | £9,134 | — | £104,782 |
| 2011-12 | 87 | £99,173 | £19,156 | £24,858 | £11,215 | — | £154,401 |
| 2012-13 | 102 | £145,706 | £15,034 | £26,921 | £12,466 | — | £200,127 |
| 2013-14 | 116 | £114,332 | £16,525 | £23,546 | £9,928 | — | £164,331 |
| 2014-15 | 172 | £129,570 | £22,445 | £25,213 | £9,562 | — | £186,790 |
| 2015-16 | 113 | £118,780 | £22,384 | £25,450 | £6,826 | — | £173,440 |
| 2016-17 | 101 | £125,362 | £14,496 | £25,460 | £9,606 | £540 | £175,464 |
| 2017-18 | 122 | £128,682 | £18,110 | £31,729 | £5,501 | £186 | £184,208 |
| 2018-19 | 127 | £111,637 | £15,945 | £29,541 | £5,083 | — | £162,206 |
| 2019-20 | 138 | £125,637 | £26,966 | £30,203 | £7,541 | £1,033 | £191,379 |
| 2020-21 | 97 | £134,140 | £19,919 | £33,875 | £4,353 | — | £192,287 |
| 2021-22 | 155 | £171,171 | £25,627 | £34,290 | £7,555 | — | £238,644 |
| 2022-23 | 151 | £181,241 | £28,820 | £30,655 | £15,081 | £2,278 | £258,076 |
| 2023-24 | 193 | £186,350 | £29,058 | £34,493 | £12,930 | — | £262,832 |
| 2024-25 | 172 | £216,579 | £24,307 | £29,290 | £8,540 | £3,136 | £281,851 |
| 2025-26 | 48 | — | £11,679 | — | — | — | £11,679 |
A year in which Dame Karen Bradley 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 | 21 | £3,304 |
| Stationery & printing | 9 | £2,232 |
| Cleaning services | 5 | £2,122 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 4 | £1,274 |
| Service charge & ground Rent | 1 | £758 |
| Software & applications | 1 | £738 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Service charge for constituency office | £758 | £758 |
| 19 March 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011725-5469] [200011805-95] | £738 | £738 |
| 5 January 2026 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline | £483 | £483 |
| 11 February 2026 | Office Costs | Utilities | Electricity | £464 | £464 |
| 3 February 2026 | Office Costs | Cleaning services | Constituency office cleaning adv 3 months | £455 | £455 |
| 6 November 2025 | Office Costs | Cleaning services | Adv for 3 months constituency office cleaning | £455 | £455 |
| 20 August 2025 | Office Costs | Cleaning services | Constituency office cleaning for 3 months adv | £455 | £455 |
| 28 May 2025 | Office Costs | Cleaning services | Adv for office cleaning 3 months | £455 | £455 |
| 9 October 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA November 2025 | £408 | £408 |
| 23 December 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Banner January 2026 | £346 | £346 |
| 10 March 2026 | Office Costs | Utilities | Electricity | £336 | £336 |
| 7 July 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA August 2025 | £332 | £332 |
| 8 October 2025 | Office Costs | Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline | £324 | £324 |
| 10 April 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Electricity | £307 | £307 |
| 17 February 2025 | Office Costs | Cleaning services | Adv Cleaning constituency office [200011805-93] | £302 | £302 |
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 Dame Karen Bradley 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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