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MPs’ business costs

Nesil Caliskan

IPSA paid £217,990 against 212 published rows for Nesil Caliskan between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Barking 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

49 claims, £11,665 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.49£11,665100.0%

Every year in the register

Nesil Caliskan’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 costsTravelTotal
2024-25163£176,791£29,502£32£206,325
2025-2649—£11,665—£11,665

A year in which Nesil Caliskan 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
Business rates2£3,643
Software & applications15£3,078
Stationery & printing12£2,007
Advertising and contact cards8£1,121
Hospitality4£576
Equipment - purchase2£558

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
1 April 2025Office CostsBusiness ratesRoom 104, Business Rates£2,420£2,420
1 August 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
1 April 2025Office CostsBusiness ratesRoom 103, Business Rates£1,223£1,223
2 October 2024Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011793-150]£425£425
16 March 2026Office CostsStationery & printingBanner March 2026£424£424
22 January 2026Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOffice furniture£360£360
7 July 2025Office CostsStationery & printingINSTANTPRINT£309£309
7 April 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsINSTANTPRINT£298£298
23 December 2025Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£250£250
16 March 2026Office CostsStationery & printingBanner March 2026£232£232
20 May 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner June 2025£229£229
20 May 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner June 2025£229£229
20 May 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner June 2025£229£229
6 August 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsINSTANTPRINT£226£226
26 March 2026Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsPrint of coffee morning invites x 5000£223£223

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 Nesil Caliskan 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 · Nesil Caliskan’s register of interests and votes · Sources