MPs’ business costs

Naz Shah

IPSA paid £2,349,157 against 739 published rows for Naz Shah between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Bradford West 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

30 claims, £15,151 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.	3	£2,980	19.7%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	17	£7,156	47.2%
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.	9	£4,665	30.8%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£350	2.3%

Every year in the register

Naz Shah’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2015-16 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	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2015-16	64	£94,955	£9,810	£24,177	£7,809	£2,195	—	£138,947
2016-17	85	£136,507	£18,725	£28,070	£8,819	—	—	£192,121
2017-18	60	£150,882	£21,116	£28,350	£4,718	—	—	£205,066
2018-19	74	£138,290	£14,462	£37,648	£18,114	—	—	£208,513
2019-20	109	£138,945	£26,537	£38,607	£14,296	—	—	£218,385
2020-21	50	£173,918	£20,339	£37,610	£4,622	—	—	£236,489
2021-22	43	£176,431	£19,698	£39,143	£6,591	—	—	£241,862
2022-23	86	£193,435	£30,915	£38,235	£7,748	—	£960	£271,293
2023-24	86	£228,849	£31,177	£37,855	£10,689	—	£310	£308,879
2024-25	52	£231,152	£24,422	£40,314	£16,562	—	—	£312,451
2025-26	30	£2,980	£7,156	£4,665	—	—	£350	£15,151

A year in which Naz Shah 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	£2,400
Training - staff	1	£580

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	7	£2,666
Bought-in services	1	£1,450
Software & applications	5	£1,292
Stationery & printing	1	£943
Landline phone & internet - installation & equipment purchase	1	£678
Equipment - purchase	1	£65

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council tax	1	£2,575
Utilities	7	£1,754
Cleaning services	1	£336

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removals	1	£350

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
22 April 2025	Accommodation	Council tax	L B CAMDEN INT	£2,575	£2,575
6 July 2025	Staffing	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£1,800	£1,800
23 April 2025	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Comms & Media	£1,450	£1,450
12 August 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	CARTRIDGEPEOPLE.COM	£943	£943
6 October 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£829	£829
22 December 2025	Accommodation	Utilities	Electricity	£756	£756
22 April 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£720	£720
4 November 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - installation & equipment purchase	Landline & internet package	£678	£678
12 June 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£622	£622
1 June 2025	Staffing	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£600	£600
14 July 2025	Staffing	Training - staff	staff training	£580	£580
16 January 2026	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£433	£433
27 March 2026	Miscellaneous	Removals	removals	£350	£350
14 March 2026	Accommodation	Cleaning services	move out clean	£336	£336
13 January 2026	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£258	£258

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 Naz Shah 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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