MPs’ business costs
Yuan Yang
IPSA paid £226,837 against 133 published rows for Yuan Yang between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Earley and Woodley 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 to 2025-26
133 claims, £226,837 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. | 6 | £180,903 | 79.8% |
| Office costs | Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage. | 124 | £43,187 | 19.0% |
| 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. | 3 | £2,747 | 1.2% |
Every year in the register
Yuan Yang’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.
| Year | Claims | Staffing | Office costs | Travel | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86 | £180,751 | £29,543 | £2,747 | £213,042 |
| 2025-26 | 47 | £152 | £13,643 | — | £13,795 |
A year in which Yuan Yang 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 to 2025-26
The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.
Staffing
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Payroll | 1 | £176,890 |
| Pooled staffing services | 1 | £3,000 |
| Training - staff | 3 | £607 |
| Working From Home Allowance | 1 | £405 |
Office costs
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment - purchase | 13 | £8,007 |
| Service charge & ground Rent | 7 | £7,861 |
| Rent | 4 | £6,594 |
| Stationery & printing | 21 | £4,887 |
| Software & applications | 10 | £4,280 |
| Business rates | 6 | £2,573 |
Travel
| Cost type | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Rail | 3 | £2,747 |
Largest claims, 2024-25 to 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.
| Date | Category | Cost type | Description | Claimed | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | Staffing | Payroll | Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year | £176,890 | £176,890 |
| 14 November 2024 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment | £3,874 | £3,874 |
| 6 January 2025 | Office Costs | Rent | — | £3,129 | £3,129 |
| 3 October 2024 | Staffing | Pooled staffing services | Parliamentary Research Service (Labour) | £3,000 | £3,000 |
| 12 November 2024 | Office Costs | Rent | [***]Faster Payment Form - First Rent Payment - [***] | £2,366 | £2,366 |
| 28 October 2024 | Office Costs | Equipment - purchase | Office furniture | £2,315 | £2,315 |
| 31 March 2025 | Staff Travel | Rail | Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-25 | £1,501 | £1,501 |
| 16 June 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £1,476 | £1,476 |
| 3 October 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Quarterly service charge for constituency office plus VAT | £1,419 | £1,419 |
| 24 February 2026 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | THE UNIVERSITY OF READ | £1,405 | £1,405 |
| 2 July 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Quarterly service charge constituency office | £1,341 | £1,341 |
| 1 January 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Quarterly service charge payment for constituency office | £1,341 | £1,341 |
| 8 April 2025 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Quarterly service charge for constituency office | £1,118 | £1,118 |
| 31 March 2025 | MP Travel | Rail | Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-25 | £1,109 | £1,109 |
| 3 April 2025 | Office Costs | Business rates | Outstanding business rates on Unit B1-03 for Nov 24 - Mar 25 [200011793-265] | £1,065 | £1,065 |
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 Yuan Yang 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 · Yuan Yang’s register of interests and votes · Sources