MPs’ business costs
Laura Trott
IPSA paid £1,188,174 against 479 published rows for Laura Trott between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Sevenoaks 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
38 claims, £22,227 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. | 2 | £2,650 | 11.9% |
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 34 | £18,916 | 85.1% |
| Miscellaneous | Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19. | 2 | £661 | 3.0% |
Every year in the register
Laura Trott’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 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 | Travel | Miscellaneous | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 33 | £26,035 | £1,357 | £210 | — | £27,602 |
| 2020-21 | 59 | £161,402 | £11,930 | £206 | — | £173,538 |
| 2021-22 | 96 | £189,861 | £17,339 | £683 | — | £207,883 |
| 2022-23 | 69 | £211,848 | £8,576 | £982 | — | £221,406 |
| 2023-24 | 99 | £231,442 | £17,034 | £664 | — | £249,139 |
| 2024-25 | 85 | £265,006 | £20,928 | £445 | — | £286,380 |
| 2025-26 | 38 | £2,650 | £18,916 | — | £661 | £22,227 |
A year in which Laura Trott 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.
Staffing
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Bought-in services | 2 | £2,650 |
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising and contact cards | 3 | £5,797 |
| Stationery & printing | 8 | £3,886 |
| Postage & couriers | 1 | £3,079 |
| Bought-in services | 2 | £2,643 |
| Software & applications | 13 | £2,286 |
| Equipment - purchase | 2 | £490 |
Miscellaneous
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Removals | 2 | £661 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | Letterbox - paid by [***] | £5,497 | £5,497 |
| 4 September 2025 | Office Costs | Postage & couriers | Whistl - Distribution of leaflets paid for by [***] [***] on personal credit card - artwork attached | £3,079 | £3,079 |
| 8 September 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Solopress - Newsletter - Paid for by [***] on his personal credit card | £2,708 | £2,708 |
| 7 January 2026 | Staffing | Bought-in services | Administrative services | £1,670 | £1,670 |
| 14 January 2026 | Office Costs | Bought-in services | Comms & Media | £1,527 | £1,527 |
| 4 September 2025 | Office Costs | Bought-in services | Administrative services | £1,116 | £1,116 |
| 24 April 2025 | Staffing | Bought-in services | Administrative services | £981 | £981 |
| 31 December 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £738 | £738 |
| 2 December 2025 | Miscellaneous | Removals | Anyvan - moving to new constituency office - paid by [***] [***] | £591 | £591 |
| 1 January 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011793-478] | £509 | £509 |
| 8 September 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | Solopress - Newsletter - Paid for by [***] on his personal credit card | £432 | £432 |
| 17 December 2025 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment | £387 | £387 |
| 3 July 2025 | Office Costs | Newspapers, journals, magazines | TELEGRAPH DIRECT | £269 | £269 |
| 11 April 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA May 2025 | £258 | £258 |
| 28 November 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | DA Printers - Christmas Cards - Paid by [***] | £247 | £247 |
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 Laura Trott 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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