MPs’ business costs

Wes Streeting

IPSA paid £2,262,234 against 1,209 published rows for Wes Streeting between 2015-16 and 2025-26 as the member for Ilford North 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, 2024-25

136 claims, £307,326 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.	2	£271,823	88.4%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	133	£35,115	11.4%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£389	0.1%

Every year in the register

Wes Streeting’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	90	£133,120	£20,479	—	£5,889	£1,050	£160,538
2016-17	110	£147,316	£25,374	—	—	—	£172,690
2017-18	150	£160,976	£24,760	—	—	—	£185,736
2018-19	150	£164,460	£30,164	£1,727	—	—	£196,351
2019-20	90	£159,628	£30,266	£54	—	£269	£190,218
2020-21	83	£202,046	£26,514	—	—	—	£228,560
2021-22	101	£217,283	£29,730	£164	—	—	£247,177
2022-23	141	£236,414	£34,467	£74	—	—	£270,956
2023-24	99	£252,415	£34,208	—	—	£3,340	£289,962
2024-25	136	£271,823	£35,115	—	—	£389	£307,326
2025-26	59	—	£12,721	—	—	—	£12,721

A year in which Wes Streeting 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, 2024-25

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£271,823
MP Budget Overspend	1	£0

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	1	£18,180
Pooled staffing services	5	£5,750
Equipment - purchase	3	£4,025
Cleaning services	21	£2,575
Stationery & printing	71	£1,831
Recruitment Services &Costs	1	£900

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removals	1	£389

Largest claims, 2024-25

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 2025	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year	£271,823	£271,823
31 March 2025	Office Costs	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25	£18,180	£18,180
7 April 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£3,915	£3,915
25 February 2025	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,150	£1,150
7 February 2025	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,150	£1,150
7 February 2025	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,150	£1,150
7 February 2025	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,150	£1,150
12 April 2024	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£1,150	£1,150
6 September 2024	Office Costs	Recruitment Services &Costs	HIVE SUPPORT LTD	£900	£900
6 June 2024	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£720	£720
17 July 2024	Miscellaneous	Removals	CROWN WORKSPACE	£389	£389
20 March 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2025	£294	£294
15 May 2024	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner June 2024	£294	£294
25 February 2025	Office Costs	Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection	BIFFA WASTE SERVICES L	£281	£281
20 March 2025	Office Costs	Cleaning services	Cleaner Company - regular monthly cleaning	£205	£205

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25

7 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £5,023 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 Wes Streeting 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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