MPs’ business costs
Rachael Maskell
IPSA paid £1,933,610 against 939 published rows for Rachael Maskell between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for York Central 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
60 claims, £8,380 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 60 | £8,380 | 100.0% |
Every year in the register
Rachael Maskell’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 | 88 | £98,039 | £7,917 | £3,412 | £2,538 | — | £111,907 |
| 2016-17 | 147 | £129,119 | £21,440 | £4,542 | £685 | — | £155,786 |
| 2017-18 | 116 | £137,733 | £18,058 | £2,986 | — | — | £158,777 |
| 2018-19 | 97 | £136,711 | £20,416 | £3,284 | — | — | £160,411 |
| 2019-20 | 80 | £139,151 | £14,735 | £3,801 | — | — | £157,687 |
| 2020-21 | 57 | £187,031 | £15,538 | £627 | — | — | £203,196 |
| 2021-22 | 59 | £200,451 | £17,822 | £1,582 | — | £225 | £220,079 |
| 2022-23 | 73 | £221,375 | £22,242 | £3,761 | — | — | £247,379 |
| 2023-24 | 60 | £236,160 | £13,903 | £3,107 | — | — | £253,170 |
| 2024-25 | 102 | £231,064 | £23,052 | £2,554 | — | £170 | £256,839 |
| 2025-26 | 60 | — | £8,380 | — | — | — | £8,380 |
A year in which Rachael Maskell 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 type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Software & applications | 25 | £2,429 |
| Stationery & printing | 3 | £1,496 |
| Website hosting and design | 10 | £1,184 |
| Service charge & ground Rent | 1 | £1,096 |
| Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | 5 | £876 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | 12 | £619 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | ZETTLE_ YORK CENTRE FO | £1,096 | £1,096 |
| 16 September 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £738 | £738 |
| 26 June 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | CARTRIDGE SAVE | £679 | £679 |
| 13 January 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | CARTRIDGE SAVE | £671 | £671 |
| 24 July 2025 | Office Costs | Insurance - contents | J.M. GLENDINNING INSUR | £303 | £303 |
| 18 December 2025 | Office Costs | Website hosting and design | palliativecarecommission.uk | £284 | £284 |
| 13 May 2025 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £270 | £270 |
| 11 September 2025 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £240 | £240 |
| 19 April 2025 | Office Costs | Newspapers, journals, magazines | Newspapers | £188 | £188 |
| 25 December 2025 | Office Costs | Website hosting and design | palliativecarecommission.uk | £187 | £187 |
| 1 April 2025 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £156 | £156 |
| 9 July 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | WWW.RYMAN.CO.UK | £146 | £146 |
| 25 September 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | CANVA [***] | £130 | £130 |
| 14 October 2025 | Office Costs | Website hosting and design | oneyork.org | £129 | £129 |
| 15 September 2025 | Office Costs | Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £125 | £125 |
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 Rachael Maskell 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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