MPs’ business costs

Preet Kaur Gill

IPSA paid £1,966,637 against 1,297 published rows for Preet Kaur Gill between 2017-18 and 2025-26 as the member for Birmingham, Edgbaston BC, then Birmingham Edgbaston 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, 2018-19

159 claims, £221,657 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.	27	£153,310	69.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	114	£24,270	10.9%
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.	17	£33,720	15.2%
Travel	Journeys between the constituency and Westminster and within the constituency. Until 2018-19 IPSA published one travel category; from 2019-20 it publishes travel by the MP, by staff and by a dependant separately.	1	£10,357	4.7%

Every year in the register

Preet Kaur Gill’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2017-18 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	Miscellaneous	Total
2017-18	134	£77,894	£25,851	£24,466	£4,136	—	£132,347
2018-19	159	£153,310	£24,270	£33,720	£10,357	—	£221,657
2019-20	137	£148,618	£22,770	£31,860	£9,328	—	£212,575
2020-21	105	£143,504	£20,379	£34,153	£1,982	£50	£200,069
2021-22	130	£189,197	£29,042	£34,090	£8,675	—	£261,004
2022-23	186	£204,130	£27,187	£34,759	£10,085	—	£276,161
2023-24	184	£210,797	£30,855	£37,310	£18,341	—	£297,303
2024-25	183	£248,309	£33,928	£38,800	£15,959	—	£336,995
2025-26	79	£8,042	£16,681	£3,802	—	—	£28,525

A year in which Preet Kaur Gill 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, 2018-19

The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£145,062
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£4,800
Pooled Services	1	£1,800
Professional Services (Staff.)	5	£1,440
Volunteer Agreed Arrang. Costs	4	£142
Public Tr RAIL Volunteer - RT	5	£27

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	15	£11,691
Professional Services	4	£4,320
Stationery Purchase	25	£3,946
Furniture Purchase	1	£1,525
Venue Hire Surgery/Meeting	21	£1,247
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	12	£1,205

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	13	£31,200
Council Tax	1	£2,129
Electricity	2	£531
Budget Repayment (Accomm.)	1	£-141

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£10,357

Largest claims, 2018-19

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
31 March 2019	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2018-19 year	£145,062	£145,062
31 March 2019	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2018-19	£10,357	£10,357
1 April 2018	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRS	£4,800	£4,800
14 February 2019	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
9 January 2019	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
6 December 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
8 November 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
6 October 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
6 September 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
8 August 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
11 July 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
12 June 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
9 May 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
9 April 2018	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£2,600	£2,600
11 June 2018	Accommodation	Council Tax	IPSA card June 18	£2,129	£2,129

Claims refused and money repaid, 2018-19

3 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £54 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 Preet Kaur Gill 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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