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MPs’ business costs

Lizzi Collinge

IPSA paid £228,552 against 229 published rows for Lizzi Collinge between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Morecambe and Lunesdale 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, 2024-25 to 2025-26

229 claims, £228,552 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.12£147,34964.5%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.160£42,63618.7%
AccommodationThe 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.37£18,0147.9%
TravelJourneys 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.20£20,5529.0%

Every year in the register

Lizzi Collinge’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelTotal
2024-25154£147,349£29,855£13,605£20,552£211,361
2025-2675—£12,781£4,409—£17,190

A year in which Lizzi Collinge 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 to 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£139,256
Training - staff8£3,624
Pooled staffing services1£3,000
Bought-in services2£1,470

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Stationery & printing40£9,053
Rent8£6,718
Equipment - purchase32£5,735
Advertising and contact cards7£5,009
Utilities17£4,958
Software & applications4£3,616

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent7£13,372
Council tax13£3,749
Utilities13£605
Cleaning services1£156
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage3£132

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Hotel - London2£9,631
Rail5£7,062
Hotel - UK Not London1£1,358
Subsistence2£1,234
Mileage - car5£1,157
Parking2£67

Largest claims, 2024-25 to 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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
31 March 2025StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year£139,256£139,256
31 March 2025Staff TravelHotel - LondonAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£9,001£9,001
31 March 2025MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£4,176£4,176
18 March 2025AccommodationRent—£3,033£3,033
20 February 2025AccommodationRent—£3,033£3,033
7 February 2025StaffingPooled staffing servicesParliamentary Research Service (Labour)£3,000£3,000
7 January 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner February 2025£2,925£2,925
31 March 2025Staff TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£2,646£2,646
30 October 2024AccommodationRent[***] - First Rental Payment£2,531£2,531
10 February 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOther office equipment£2,520£2,520
19 December 2024Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsSupply and install new kitchen with sink and undersink heater unit in new costituency office 214 Marine Road Central, Morecambe£2,384£2,384
7 January 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner February 2025£2,189£2,189
19 November 2024Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsMORECAMBE FC£2,100£2,100
11 February 2025AccommodationRent—£2,004£2,004
9 January 2025AccommodationRent—£2,004£2,004

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25 to 2025-26

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £66 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 Lizzi Collinge 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 · Lizzi Collinge’s register of interests and votes · Sources