MPs’ business costs

Neil Coyle

IPSA paid £1,967,824 against 1,075 published rows for Neil Coyle between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark 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

77 claims, £28,388 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.	2	£1,125	4.0%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	74	£26,949	94.9%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£314	1.1%

Every year in the register

Neil Coyle’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	Travel	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2015-16	56	£115,641	£18,713	—	£4,904	—	£139,259
2016-17	80	£143,250	£24,823	—	—	—	£168,073
2017-18	101	£150,913	£22,459	—	—	—	£173,372
2018-19	120	£159,696	£24,144	—	—	—	£183,841
2019-20	115	£161,043	£19,069	£292	—	—	£180,404
2020-21	94	£193,038	£27,014	£158	—	£3,298	£223,508
2021-22	103	£206,459	£25,859	£89	—	—	£232,407
2022-23	115	£151,119	£30,682	—	—	£4,970	£186,771
2023-24	99	£174,799	£30,144	£39	—	—	£204,983
2024-25	115	£213,902	£32,918	—	—	—	£246,820
2025-26	77	£1,125	£26,949	—	—	£314	£28,388

A year in which Neil Coyle 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	£1,125

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	5	£10,849
Stationery & printing	17	£4,878
Utilities	18	£2,822
Cleaning services	14	£1,833
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	9	£1,818
Software & applications	3	£1,576

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removals	1	£314

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
14 July 2025	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	Refurbishment of New Office 145 Jamaica Road	£3,000	£3,000
4 July 2025	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	Refurbishment works for new office	£3,000	£3,000
4 July 2025	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	Refurshment works for new office	£3,000	£3,000
4 December 2025	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	New Signage for Constituency Office	£1,674	£1,674
24 February 2026	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - installation & equipment purchase	Landline	£1,216	£1,216
28 March 2025	Staffing	Bought-in services	Comms & Media	£1,000	£1,000
10 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2026	£744	£744
17 September 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£738	£738
30 June 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£738	£738
1 December 2025	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£540	£540
25 November 2025	Office Costs	Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	CURRYS ONLINE	£505	£505
10 December 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner January 2026	£496	£496
10 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2026	£449	£449
10 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2026	£449	£449
10 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2026	£449	£449

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

2 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £284 not paid and £0 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 Neil Coyle 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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