Members' Expenses - Constituency Office Expenses 2021-2022
Figures for April 2021 - February 2022
| Name | Constituency Office Operating Expenses 1 | Rent and Rates | Establishment Expenses | Total Expenditure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aiken, Steve | £6,277.54 | £9,278.09 | £1,400.00 | £16,955.63 |
| Allen, Andy | £2,705.33 | £10,231.29 | £203.85 | £13,140.47 |
| Allister, Jim | £4,653.92 | £11,239.11 | £0.00 | £15,893.03 |
| Fleming-Archibald, Caoimhe | £2,864.98 | £4,891.34 | £0.00 | £7,756.32 |
| Anderson, Martina | £1,877.54 | £3,995.76 | £0.00 | £5,873.30 |
| Armstrong, Kellie | £3,497.57 | £10,893.39 | £870.00 | £15,260.96 |
| Bailey, Clare | £2,076.11 | £11,900.00 | £996.00 | £14,972.11 |
| Barton, Rosemary | £1,738.43 | £10,348.19 | £0.00 | £12,086.62 |
| Beattie, Doug | £3,717.76 | £7,716.41 | £0.00 | £11,434.17 |
| Beggs, Roy | £3,922.00 | £8,582.43 | £0.00 | £12,504.43 |
| Blair, John | £1,966.35 | £11,159.46 | £558.00 | £13,683.81 |
| Boylan, Cathal | £2,500.86 | £10,683.22 | £0.00 | £13,184.08 |
| Bradley, Maurice | £3,644.10 | £8,177.83 | £0.00 | £11,821.93 |
| Bradley, Paula | £2,591.85 | £11,900.00 | £1,831.20 | £16,323.05 |
| Bradley, Sinead | £4,871.83 | £10,163.76 | £0.00 | £15,035.59 |
| Bradshaw, Paula | £3,195.07 | £8,445.76 | £0.00 | £11,640.83 |
| Brogan, Nicola | £1,245.28 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £1,245.28 |
| Buchanan, Keith | £4,622.41 | £10,328.76 | £192.00 | £15,143.17 |
| Buchanan, Tom | £3,980.55 | £13,302.16 | £2,074.00 | £19,356.71 |
| Buckley, Jonathan | £3,692.31 | £11,585.17 | £0.00 | £15,277.48 |
| Bunting, Joanne | £4,791.08 | £11,628.53 | £0.00 | £16,419.61 |
| Butler, Robbie | £5,213.54 | £9,722.90 | £0.00 | £14,936.44 |
| Cameron, Pam | £6,433.71 | £11,304.90 | £797.98 | £18,536.59 |
| Carroll, Gerry | £4,084.03 | £10,772.86 | £0.00 | £14,856.89 |
| Catney, Pat | £2,806.15 | £11,715.72 | £0.00 | £14,521.87 |
| Chambers, Alan | £3,097.44 | £10,195.55 | £0.00 | £13,292.99 |
| Clarke, Trevor | £5,088.58 | £11,221.79 | £0.00 | £16,310.37 |
| Delargy, Pádraig | £471.64 | £1,806.45 | £0.00 | £2,278.09 |
| Dickson, Stewart | £3,682.71 | £12,278.09 | £0.00 | £15,960.80 |
| Dillon, Linda | £5,048.95 | £7,203.44 | £0.00 | £12,252.39 |
| Dodds, Diane | £3,432.49 | £11,687.82 | £1,484.00 | £16,604.31 |
| Dolan, Jemma | £5,340.67 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £5,340.67 |
| Dunne, Gordon | £1,119.05 | £2,573.44 | £0.00 | £3,692.49 |
| Dunne, Stephen | £5,696.10 | £7,746.06 | £0.00 | £13,442.16 |
| Durkan, Mark | £1,896.47 | £9,276.23 | £480.00 | £11,652.70 |
| Easton, Alex | £4,281.44 | £9,717.19 | £0.00 | £13,998.63 |
| Ennis, Sinead | £4,703.34 | £11,513.82 | £0.00 | £16,217.16 |
| Erskine Deborah | £653.92 | £1,987.89 | £234.00 | £2,875.81 |
| Ferguson, Ciara | £471.63 | £1,806.45 | £0.00 | £2,278.08 |
| Flynn, Orlaithi | £4,270.12 | £11,563.35 | £0.00 | £15,833.47 |
| Foster, Arlene | £1,487.26 | £6,060.08 | £0.00 | £7,547.34 |
| Frew, Paul | £2,874.59 | £8,925.94 | £0.00 | £11,800.53 |
| Gildernew, Colm | £3,350.01 | £10,407.30 | £0.00 | £13,757.31 |
| Givan, Paul | £3,802.99 | £5,617.97 | £0.00 | £9,420.96 |
| Hargey, Deirdre | £2,883.06 | £11,316.22 | £0.00 | £14,199.28 |
| Harvey, Harry | £682.13 | £9,881.75 | £0.00 | £10,563.88 |
| Hilditch, David | £4,005.13 | £8,500.00 | £0.00 | £12,505.13 |
| Humphrey, William | £4,007.98 | £10,781.22 | £0.00 | £14,789.20 |
| Hunter, Cara | £5,356.61 | £11,593.19 | £760.00 | £17,709.80 |
| Irwin, William | £3,312.65 | £10,277.02 | £0.00 | £13,589.67 |
| Kearney, Declan | £4,485.62 | £12,426.86 | £0.00 | £16,912.48 |
| Kelly, Dolores | £3,953.79 | £8,653.91 | £0.00 | £12,607.70 |
| Kelly, Gerry | £4,046.08 | £11,433.15 | £2,158.97 | £17,638.20 |
| Kimmins, Liz | £4,260.77 | £8,039.15 | £1,368.00 | £13,667.92 |
| Long, Naomi | £2,674.27 | £8,216.04 | £492.00 | £11,382.31 |
| Lunn, Trevor | £3,041.46 | £10,744.94 | £0.00 | £13,786.40 |
| Lynch, Sean | £1,787.63 | £2,795.31 | £0.00 | £4,582.94 |
| Lyons, Gordon | £3,037.36 | £4,664.11 | £373.99 | £8,075.46 |
| Lyttle, Chris | £2,823.79 | £8,216.04 | £492.00 | £11,531.83 |
| Mallon, Nichola | £3,256.82 | £11,411.26 | £0.00 | £14,668.08 |
| Maskey, Alex | £3,872.91 | £0.00 | £330.00 | £4,202.91 |
| McAleer, Declan | £2,161.96 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £2,161.96 |
| McCann, Fra | £3,014.95 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £3,014.95 |
| McCrossan, Daniel | £6,871.88 | £10,566.02 | £0.00 | £17,437.90 |
| McGlone, Patsy | £5,761.17 | £6,932.55 | £0.00 | £12,693.72 |
| McGrath, Colin | £4,809.35 | £8,887.75 | £477.91 | £14,175.01 |
| McGuigan, Philip | £3,139.36 | £9,520.86 | £0.00 | £12,660.22 |
| McHugh, Maolíosa | £5,356.68 | £0.00 | £1,225.00 | £6,581.68 |
| McIlveen, Michelle | £2,952.08 | £9,695.64 | £354.00 | £13,001.72 |
| McLaughlin, Sinéad | £3,776.71 | £11,346.42 | £315.00 | £15,438.13 |
| McNulty, Justin | £2,044.22 | £11,861.14 | £0.00 | £13,905.36 |
| Middleton, Gary | £3,900.55 | £12,313.72 | £97.90 | £16,312.17 |
| Muir, Andrew | £4,840.91 | £9,059.56 | £3,403.20 | £17,303.67 |
| Mullan, Karen | £1,823.17 | £3,995.75 | £0.00 | £5,818.92 |
| Murphy Áine | £1,603.76 | £7,451.62 | £0.00 | £9,055.38 |
| Murphy, Conor | £5,917.09 | £11,821.41 | £0.00 | £17,738.50 |
| Nesbitt, Mike | £3,968.18 | £11,450.48 | £0.00 | £15,418.66 |
| Newton, Robin | £4,950.71 | £5,160.98 | £0.00 | £10,111.69 |
| Ni Chuilin, Caral | £5,760.39 | £11,295.41 | £2,857.84 | £19,913.64 |
| O'Dowd, John | £4,560.04 | £12,071.53 | £894.00 | £17,525.57 |
| O'Neill, Michelle | £3,091.10 | £5,468.76 | £0.00 | £8,559.86 |
| O'Toole, Matthew | £3,245.35 | £8,499.74 | £0.00 | £11,745.09 |
| Reilly, Aisling | £1,036.58 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £1,036.58 |
| Poots, Edwin | £3,422.19 | £5,617.97 | £0.00 | £9,040.16 |
| Robinson, George | £1,104.77 | £5,148.96 | £0.00 | £6,253.73 |
| Rogan, Emma | £5,517.22 | £10,095.84 | £0.00 | £15,613.06 |
| Sheehan, Pat | £2,442.55 | £12,971.10 | £0.00 | £15,413.65 |
| Sheerin, Emma | £2,951.56 | £3,187.50 | £0.00 | £6,139.06 |
| Stalford, Christopher | £5,737.12 | £8,424.06 | £0.00 | £14,161.18 |
| Stewart, John | £2,209.73 | £7,925.94 | £0.00 | £10,135.67 |
| Storey, Mervyn | £5,303.33 | £9,480.82 | £0.00 | £14,784.15 |
| Sugden, Claire | £4,222.69 | £8,040.94 | £0.00 | £12,263.63 |
| Swann, Robin | £6,339.25 | £11,309.95 | £0.00 | £17,649.20 |
| Weir, Peter | £3,541.13 | £10,237.61 | £0.00 | £13,778.74 |
| Wells, Jim | £3,683.09 | £9,706.76 | £0.00 | £13,389.85 |
| Woods, Rachel | £2,482.11 | £6,534.98 | £496.40 | £9,513.49 |
| Total | £340,770.69 | £806,587.84 | £27,217.24 | £1,174,575.77 |
1 Constituency Office Expenses (COE) 2021 – 2022
As its name suggests, COE is generally used to allow a Member to provide a service to constituents through a constituency office. Items that can be claimed from COE include office rent and rates, office utilities (including heating and lighting and telephones and mobile phone), office cleaning, office equipment including IT hardware, office furniture, office signage and insurance. COE cannot be claimed without valid proof of the actual expenses incurred.
The maximum COE available is £7,000 annum (pro rata for Members serving less than a year) for Constituency Office Operating Expenses ), £8,500 per annum (pro rata) for rent and £4,000 per mandate for Constituency Office Establishment Expenses (which also includes costs of refurbishing or maintaining an existing office and equipment). Rates may be recovered in full. However, where a lease agreement is entered into and the rental payments for a year are in excess of the maximum amount of rent allowable, a limit is applied.
The tax date of an invoice determines the financial year in which the expense may be claimed, irrespective of period covered by the invoice.
In the detailed analysis of COE, it should be noted that where a Member's name is given as the "Supplier" the payment was made as a reimbursement to the Member for admissible expenditure incurred. If a Member shares an office with another Member, all costs must be split equally and the Member may only recover expenses, which relate to that Member. However, one Member may pay the whole invoice and receive the reimbursement and the cost will be spilt when the claim is processed, therefore recording the name of one Member as a supplier in the record of another Member.
Members are permitted to use COOE to purchase pre-paid envelopes, stationery, envelopes, toners, general office supplies, small office equipment etc. for use in their constituency offices and where these items have been purchased from the central Assembly Office Resources department the supplier will be "NI Assembly".
Members may choose to operate a petty cash system for small purchases that are less than £5. Members continue to have to provide valid receipts. This expenditure is recorded under 'Sundry Expenses'.
