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MPs’ business costs

Órfhlaith Begley

IPSA paid £1,434,467 against 929 published rows for Órfhlaith Begley between 2018-19 and 2025-26 as the member for West Tyrone CC. 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

57 claims, £17,090 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.57£17,090100.0%

Every year in the register

Órfhlaith Begley’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2018-19 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 costsAccommodationTravelTotal
2018-1986£95,592£12,829£1,627£26,030£136,077
2019-20134£157,156£22,647£1,050£14,904£195,756
2020-21101£138,882£22,165—£440£161,486
2021-22146£195,672£25,514£350£5,743£227,279
2022-23145£189,679£28,030£350£4,348£222,407
2023-24150£227,979£25,229£185£2,853£256,246
2024-25110£191,942£23,351—£2,833£218,125
2025-2657—£17,090——£17,090

A year in which Órfhlaith Begley 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
Utilities11£6,200
Business rates2£4,462
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage21£2,482
Stationery & printing10£1,619
Software & applications2£894
Equipment - hire7£762

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 May 2025Office CostsBusiness ratesRates for Omagh Constituency Office£3,160£3,160
4 February 2026Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£1,318£1,318
1 May 2025Office CostsBusiness ratesRates Strabane Constituency Office£1,303£1,303
13 May 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£971£971
25 February 2026Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£795£795
20 November 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£738£738
7 January 2026Office CostsUtilitiesOther fuel£561£561
13 March 2026Office CostsStationery & printingCommercial March 2026£553£553
13 August 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£550£550
12 November 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£513£513
7 November 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£497£497
11 August 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£451£451
8 May 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£315£315
15 August 2025Office CostsCleaning servicesOutdoor maintenance£250£250
23 October 2025Office CostsTV licenceTVLICENSING.CO.UK£175£175

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 Órfhlaith Begley 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 · Órfhlaith Begley’s register of interests and votes · Sources