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MPs’ business costs

Margaret Mullane

IPSA paid £188,531 against 187 published rows for Margaret Mullane between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Dagenham and Rainham 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

80 claims, £23,506 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.79£16,54970.4%
MiscellaneousClaims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.1£6,95629.6%

Every year in the register

Margaret Mullane’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 costsTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2024-25107£139,040£25,976£9—£165,025
2025-2680—£16,549—£6,956£23,506

A year in which Margaret Mullane 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 typeClaimsPaid
Software & applications13£2,688
Cleaning services5£2,591
Stationery & printing8£2,245
Equipment - purchase7£1,661
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage10£1,398
Bought-in services3£1,110

Miscellaneous

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Bought-in services1£6,956

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
24 June 2025MiscellaneousBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£6,956£6,956
16 June 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
19 February 2026Office CostsStationery & printingBanner March 2026£859£859
5 November 2025Office CostsPostage & couriersBanner December 2025£783£783
23 June 2025Office CostsCleaning servicesCleaning services£675£675
17 September 2024Office CostsCleaning servicesCleaning services£675£675
11 February 2025Office CostsCleaning servicesCleaning services£671£671
12 January 2026Office CostsCleaning servicesCleaning services£518£518
4 February 2026Office CostsStationery & printingBanner March 2026£516£516
2 February 2026Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOther office equipment£516£516
25 July 2024Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011793-336]£449£449
21 May 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseComputer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories£398£398
2 April 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£370£370
2 April 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£370£370
2 April 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£370£370

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 Margaret Mullane 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 · Margaret Mullane’s register of interests and votes · Sources