MPs’ business costs
Luke Taylor
IPSA paid £191,228 against 184 published rows for Luke Taylor between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Sutton and Cheam 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, 2025-26
65 claims, £11,310 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. | 65 | £11,310 | 100.0% |
Every year in the register
Luke Taylor’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.
| Year | Claims | Staffing | Office costs | Travel | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 119 | £147,582 | £32,181 | £155 | £179,918 |
| 2025-26 | 65 | — | £11,310 | — | £11,310 |
A year in which Luke Taylor 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Software & applications | 2 | £1,898 |
| Utilities | 13 | £1,442 |
| Equipment - purchase | 9 | £1,409 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 10 | £1,156 |
| Stationery & printing | 6 | £1,088 |
| Cleaning services | 5 | £994 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £1,476 | £1,476 |
| 7 April 2025 | Office Costs | Business rates | Constituency Office Business Rates 25/26 | £728 | £728 |
| 13 October 2025 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £700 | £700 |
| 23 April 2025 | Office Costs | Insurance - buildings | Constituency Office Annual Insurance [200011793-459] | £603 | £603 |
| 5 August 2024 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011793-334] | £422 | £422 |
| 24 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA March 2026 | £304 | £304 |
| 21 January 2026 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment | £239 | £239 |
| 13 August 2025 | Office Costs | Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | Replacing Office light fittings with LED panels | £230 | £230 |
| 9 July 2025 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Office furniture | £228 | £228 |
| 19 March 2026 | Office Costs | Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | Installation of a door closer on back door of Constituency Office | £210 | £210 |
| 4 December 2025 | Office Costs | Cleaning services | Constituency Office Cleaning Contract - Nov 25 | £210 | £210 |
| 14 July 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Electricity | £205 | £205 |
| 4 March 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA March 2026 | £204 | £204 |
| 24 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | XMA March 2026 | £204 | £204 |
| 6 February 2026 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Sundries | £198 | £198 |
Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26
6 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £5,716 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 Luke Taylor 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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