MPs’ business costs

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

IPSA paid £2,035,406 against 699 published rows for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan between 2016-17 and 2025-26 as the member for Tooting 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, 2021-22

53 claims, £242,969 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.	1	£215,493	88.7%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	51	£27,250	11.2%
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	£227	0.1%

Every year in the register

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2016-17 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	Total
2016-17	89	£113,989	£17,527	£27	£5,999	£137,542
2017-18	55	£158,176	£23,956	£173	—	£182,306
2018-19	77	£164,294	£23,108	£512	—	£187,914
2019-20	54	£153,735	£26,666	£1,019	—	£181,419
2020-21	77	£205,610	£33,426	£1,054	—	£240,091
2021-22	53	£215,493	£27,250	£227	—	£242,969
2022-23	83	£232,108	£31,127	£997	—	£264,231
2023-24	105	£249,912	£33,860	—	—	£283,773
2024-25	49	£263,985	£28,841	£1,407	—	£294,233
2025-26	57	—	£20,929	—	—	£20,929

A year in which Dr Rosena Allin-Khan 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, 2021-22

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£215,493

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	12	£13,312
Pooled staffing services	1	£4,200
Software & applications	16	£3,071
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,839
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	10	£1,305
Parking	1	£997

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	1	£227

Largest claims, 2021-22

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 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£215,493	£215,493
2 September 2021	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£4,200	£4,200
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£1,839	£1,839
8 March 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,109	£1,109
8 February 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,109	£1,109
11 January 2022	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,109	£1,109
7 December 2021	Office Costs	Rent	—	£1,109	£1,109
16 November 2021	Office Costs	Rent	Rent	£1,109	£1,109
16 November 2021	Office Costs	Rent	Rent	£1,109	£1,109
16 November 2021	Office Costs	Rent	Rent	£1,109	£1,109
16 November 2021	Office Costs	Rent	Rent	£1,109	£1,109
16 November 2021	Office Costs	Rent	Rent	£1,109	£1,109
16 November 2021	Office Costs	Rent	Rent	£1,109	£1,109
16 November 2021	Office Costs	Rent	Rent	£1,109	£1,109
16 November 2021	Office Costs	Rent	Rent	£1,109	£1,109

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 Dr Rosena Allin-Khan 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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