MPs’ business costs

Pat McFadden

IPSA paid £2,571,114 against 2,051 published rows for Pat McFadden between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Wolverhampton South East 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, 2010-11

112 claims, £104,562 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	£73,975	70.7%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	71	£17,440	16.7%
Accommodation	The cost of somewhere to stay for an MP whose constituency is far enough from Westminster that IPSA's rules allow it. An MP representing a London seat is not eligible on the same terms.	39	£7,821	7.5%
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	£5,325	5.1%

Every year in the register

Pat McFadden’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	Accommodation	Travel	Total
2010-11	112	£73,975	£17,440	£7,821	£5,325	£104,562
2011-12	146	£96,001	£21,345	£8,906	£5,963	£132,214
2012-13	164	£111,424	£21,780	£9,203	£6,180	£148,588
2013-14	203	£102,864	£22,040	£9,635	£7,185	£141,724
2014-15	144	£112,815	£20,844	£9,679	£6,291	£149,628
2015-16	151	£132,079	£20,111	£9,504	£5,715	£167,410
2016-17	124	£127,153	£15,454	£9,703	£5,970	£158,281
2017-18	115	£140,407	£21,510	£9,975	£4,577	£176,468
2018-19	117	£145,209	£19,456	£9,927	£5,876	£180,469
2019-20	128	£152,025	£15,809	£10,305	£4,378	£182,516
2020-21	118	£149,006	£18,450	£10,703	£2,244	£180,402
2021-22	100	£151,607	£14,075	£10,673	£5,198	£181,553
2022-23	146	£168,401	£19,103	£11,002	£4,052	£202,558
2023-24	129	£192,430	£18,190	£11,384	£4,172	£226,177
2024-25	110	£196,993	£16,714	£13,219	£2,434	£229,359
2025-26	44	—	£7,319	£1,884	—	£9,203

A year in which Pat McFadden 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, 2010-11

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£73,975

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	4	£5,805
Stationery Purchase	23	£2,478
Other	16	£1,831
Photocopier Hire	2	£1,616
Business Rates	1	£1,478
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	3	£1,239

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Mortgage Interest	11	£5,925
Council Tax	10	£877
Gas	4	£369
Buildings Insurance	1	£316
Telephone Usage/Rental	8	£128
Water	2	£124

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£5,325

Largest claims, 2010-11

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 2011	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2010-11 year	£73,975	£73,975
31 March 2011	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2010-11	£5,325	£5,325
31 March 2011	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constituency Office Rent	£1,620	£1,620
17 December 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constituency Office Rent	£1,620	£1,620
2 September 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constituency office rent	£1,620	£1,620
2 September 2010	Office Costs	Business Rates	Business Rates	£1,478	£1,478
18 August 2010	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	Constituency Office Rent	£945	£945
31 March 2011	Office Costs	Other	Advice Surgery Cards	£875	£875
15 October 2010	Office Costs	Computer HW Purchase	Computer Purchase	£815	£815
15 October 2010	Office Costs	Photocopier Hire	Riso Photocopier Rental	£808	£808
13 July 2010	Office Costs	Photocopier Hire	Riso Photocopier Rental	£808	£808
29 March 2011	Accommodation	Mortgage Interest	Mortgage interest March 2011	£548	£548
28 February 2011	Accommodation	Mortgage Interest	Mortgage interest and cl tax	£548	£548
31 January 2011	Accommodation	Mortgage Interest	Mortgage interest	£548	£548
6 January 2011	Accommodation	Mortgage Interest	Mortgage interest council tax	£548	£548

Claims refused and money repaid, 2010-11

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £39 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 Pat McFadden 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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