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MPs’ business costs

Sarah Sackman

IPSA paid £219,040 against 130 published rows for Sarah Sackman between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Finchley and Golders Green 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

20 claims, £11,513 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.20£11,513100.0%

Every year in the register

Sarah Sackman’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
2024-25110£174,391£32,601£535£207,527
2025-2620—£11,513—£11,513

A year in which Sarah Sackman 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
Advertising and contact cards8£6,941
Software & applications1£1,476
Stationery & printing3£1,118
Training - MP1£810
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries3£448
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs1£411

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
2 September 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsLETTERBOX£6,079£6,079
29 July 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
29 August 2025Office CostsTraining - MPPAYPAL TIMAAREID£810£810
25 November 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner December 2025£510£510
27 January 2026Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsMY GROUP SOLUTIONS LIM£411£411
22 November 2025Office CostsStationery & printingXMA January 2026£332£332
13 May 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsKELLMATT LIMITED£308£308
1 October 2025Office CostsStationery & printingHeaded printer paper£276£276
22 August 2025Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£200£200
10 October 2025Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£148£148
4 April 2025Office CostsHospitalityHOC CRS£130£130
23 January 2026Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsPOTTS PRINT UK LTD£113£113
15 May 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsPOTTS PRINT UK LTD£101£101
4 December 2025Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£100£100
28 April 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOther office equipment£95£95

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 Sarah Sackman 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 · Sarah Sackman’s register of interests and votes · Sources