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MPs’ business costs

Kate Osamor

IPSA paid £2,003,651 against 1,108 published rows for Kate Osamor between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Edmonton BC, then Edmonton and Winchmore Hill 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, 2024-25

77 claims, £247,897 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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.1£202,69581.8%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.74£35,74714.4%
MiscellaneousClaims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.2£9,4563.8%

Every year in the register

Kate Osamor’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsTravelStarting up and winding upMiscellaneousTotal
2015-16186£119,109£23,892£1,166£5,961£875£151,003
2016-17103£148,145£19,332———£167,478
2017-18106£145,452£26,025£594——£172,071
2018-1989£157,047£24,502£193—£300£182,041
2019-20113£152,174£29,959£211——£182,344
2020-2175£170,494£21,709———£192,203
2021-2284£184,666£30,724£112——£215,503
2022-2380£193,052£31,159———£224,211
2023-24119£210,072£34,989£69——£245,131
2024-2577£202,695£35,747——£9,456£247,897
2025-2676£5,311£18,459———£23,770

A year in which Kate Osamor 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

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£202,695

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent1£6,268
Service charge & ground Rent8£5,857
Cleaning services8£5,544
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs3£4,928
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage12£2,753
Equipment - purchase9£2,603

Miscellaneous

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs2£9,456

Largest claims, 2024-25

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
31 March 2025StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year£202,695£202,695
15 August 2024MiscellaneousMaintenance, Redecorations & Repairsa/c units£7,656£7,656
31 March 2025Office CostsRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£6,268£6,268
15 August 2024Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & Repairsoffice signage [200011155-1]£2,128£2,128
8 April 2024Office CostsEquipment - purchaseComputer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories£1,932£1,932
30 August 2024MiscellaneousMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsBoiler£1,800£1,800
16 July 2024Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsOffice boiler and hot water installation£1,800£1,800
9 January 2025Office CostsCleaning servicesCleaning£1,584£1,584
9 January 2025Office CostsTranslation services - other languagesTranslations£1,337£1,337
9 January 2025Office CostsTraining - MPTraining£1,254£1,254
23 October 2024Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & Repairsrepairs£1,000£1,000
19 February 2025Office CostsService charge & ground RentASHDOWN PHILLIPS &£907£907
2 April 2024Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£893£893
19 February 2025Office CostsService charge & ground RentASHDOWN PHILLIPS &£865£865
19 February 2025Office CostsService charge & ground RentASHDOWN PHILLIPS &£865£865

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £1,570 not paid and £0 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 Kate Osamor 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 · Kate Osamor’s register of interests and votes · Sources