MPs’ business costs

Layla Moran

IPSA paid £1,822,833 against 1,461 published rows for Layla Moran between 2017-18 and 2025-26 as the member for Oxford West and Abingdon 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, 2020-21

249 claims, £209,470 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.	153	£169,639	81.0%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	40	£23,926	11.4%
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.	52	£14,732	7.0%
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.	4	£1,173	0.6%

Every year in the register

Layla Moran’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2017-18 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
2017-18	99	£120,710	£24,859	£16,711	£700	—	£162,980
2018-19	143	£159,917	£24,801	£21,242	£2,149	£168	£208,277
2019-20	349	£130,072	£18,111	£21,093	£3,574	—	£172,850
2020-21	249	£169,639	£23,926	£14,732	£1,173	—	£209,470
2021-22	281	£179,751	£24,877	£18,530	£3,023	—	£226,180
2022-23	122	£205,667	£22,888	£23,070	£3,748	—	£255,373
2023-24	98	£227,486	£23,053	£27,038	£3,363	—	£280,939
2024-25	79	£246,933	£22,418	£24,177	£3,183	—	£296,711
2025-26	41	—	£7,031	£2,783	—	£238	£10,051

A year in which Layla Moran 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, 2020-21

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£168,359
Volunteer - agreed arrangement costs	151	£1,260
Health & welfare - staff	1	£20

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	11	£11,000
Pooled staffing services	1	£5,575
Working From Home Allowance	1	£2,025
Bought-in services	1	£1,620
Stationery & printing	11	£1,327
Equipment - purchase	12	£996

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	13	£12,263
Utilities	19	£1,432
Council tax	6	£625
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	12	£241
Moving Fees	1	£138
Landline phone & internet - installation & equipment purchase	1	£33

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mileage - car	1	£814
Congestion charge & toll	1	£390
Rail	2	£-31

Largest claims, 2020-21

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 2021	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year	£168,359	£168,359
9 July 2020	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Support Team (Liberal Democrat)	£5,575	£5,575
31 March 2021	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for 2020-21	£2,025	£2,025
18 November 2020	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£1,620	£1,620
3 June 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,582	£1,582
6 May 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,582	£1,582
16 March 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,300	£1,300
16 February 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,300	£1,300
12 January 2021	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,300	£1,300
13 December 2020	Accommodation	Rent	—	£1,300	£1,300
2 March 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,000	£1,000
2 February 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,000	£1,000
6 January 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,000	£1,000
1 December 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,000	£1,000
1 November 2020	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,000	£1,000

Claims refused and money repaid, 2020-21

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £1,195 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 Layla Moran 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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