MPs’ business costs

Fleur Anderson

IPSA paid £1,340,194 against 613 published rows for Fleur Anderson between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Putney 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, 2019-20

23 claims, £28,055 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.	3	£25,380	90.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	20	£2,676	9.5%

Every year in the register

Fleur Anderson’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 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
2019-20	23	£25,380	£2,676	—	—	£28,055
2020-21	56	£178,416	£40,974	—	—	£219,390
2021-22	118	£217,812	£28,940	£16	—	£246,767
2022-23	100	£236,440	£29,842	£550	—	£266,833
2023-24	117	£252,789	£24,888	£2,372	—	£280,049
2024-25	185	£268,091	£25,651	£855	£1,440	£296,037
2025-26	14	—	£3,064	—	—	£3,064

A year in which Fleur Anderson 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, 2019-20

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£24,503
Training - staff	2	£877

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	1	£1,260
Software & applications	2	£900
Stationery & printing	17	£515

Largest claims, 2019-20

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 2020	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2019-20 year	£24,503	£24,503
1 April 2020	Office Costs	Rent	[***]	£1,260	£1,260
1 February 2020	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£600	£600
2 March 2020	Staffing	Training - staff	PARLI-TRAINING	£439	£439
2 March 2020	Staffing	Training - staff	PARLI-TRAINING	£439	£439
1 February 2020	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£300	£300
17 March 2020	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	AMAZON.CO.UK [***]	£291	£291
16 March 2020	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	WWW.INSTANTPRINT.C	£139	£139
17 March 2020	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	WWW.INSTANTPRINT.C	£28	£28
11 March 2020	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2020	£13	£13
11 March 2020	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2020	£8	£8
11 March 2020	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2020	£8	£8
11 March 2020	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2020	£7	£7
11 March 2020	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2020	£4	£4
11 March 2020	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2020	£4	£4

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 Fleur Anderson 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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