MPs’ business costs

Ms Stella Creasy

IPSA paid £2,965,731 against 2,101 published rows for Ms Stella Creasy between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Walthamstow 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, 2016-17

128 claims, £157,499 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	£134,206	85.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	126	£22,608	14.4%
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	£686	0.4%

Every year in the register

Ms Stella Creasy’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2010-11 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	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	47	£94,151	£12,664	£21	—	£106,836
2011-12	107	£138,976	£17,449	£474	—	£156,899
2012-13	124	£145,528	£19,965	£320	—	£165,812
2013-14	137	£146,253	£15,751	£746	—	£162,750
2014-15	118	£154,050	£16,560	£238	—	£170,847
2015-16	109	£143,820	£24,045	£124	—	£167,988
2016-17	128	£134,206	£22,608	£686	—	£157,499
2017-18	132	£141,957	£19,488	£856	—	£162,300
2018-19	145	£152,480	£22,046	£642	—	£175,167
2019-20	127	£166,105	£21,271	£381	£22,725	£210,482
2020-21	172	£205,044	£27,509	—	£13,542	£246,095
2021-22	139	£214,632	£26,702	£126	£1,107	£242,566
2022-23	161	£235,782	£26,263	—	—	£262,044
2023-24	209	£243,774	£33,169	£216	—	£277,159
2024-25	187	£264,809	£24,698	£520	—	£290,027
2025-26	59	—	£11,258	—	—	£11,258

A year in which Ms Stella Creasy 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, 2016-17

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£134,206

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	13	£5,776
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	28	£4,425
Stationery Purchase	17	£2,754
Computer HW Purchase	6	£2,374
Professional Services	8	£2,271
Training MP Staff	5	£1,405

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£686

Largest claims, 2016-17

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 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£134,206	£134,206
19 January 2017	Office Costs	Stationery Purchase	Office Stationery - Jan	£1,710	£1,710
29 July 2016	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	GPC Card - Office Expenses Jul	£1,225	£1,225
9 December 2016	Office Costs	Professional Services	December Office Expenses	£1,200	£1,200
2 August 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Office Costs - Jul-Aug	£811	£811
7 February 2017	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	GPC Statement - FEB	£737	£737
21 November 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Office Expenses Oct/Nov	£736	£736
29 March 2017	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	GPC March/April	£689	£689
31 March 2017	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2016-17	£686	£686
11 July 2016	Office Costs	Contact Cards	Office Expenses Jun-Jul	£675	£675
31 May 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	Telephone Expenses	£641	£641
30 June 2016	Office Costs	Training MP Staff	GPC Card - Jun/Jul	£510	£510
26 September 2016	Office Costs	Computer SW Purchase	GPC Office Expenses Sept-Oct	£500	£500
16 February 2017	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£480	£480
20 January 2017	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£480	£480

Claims refused and money repaid, 2016-17

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £96 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 Ms Stella Creasy 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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