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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, 2025-26

44 claims, £9,203 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.29£7,31979.5%
AccommodationThe 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.15£1,88420.5%

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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelTotal
2010-11112£73,975£17,440£7,821£5,325£104,562
2011-12146£96,001£21,345£8,906£5,963£132,214
2012-13164£111,424£21,780£9,203£6,180£148,588
2013-14203£102,864£22,040£9,635£7,185£141,724
2014-15144£112,815£20,844£9,679£6,291£149,628
2015-16151£132,079£20,111£9,504£5,715£167,410
2016-17124£127,153£15,454£9,703£5,970£158,281
2017-18115£140,407£21,510£9,975£4,577£176,468
2018-19117£145,209£19,456£9,927£5,876£180,469
2019-20128£152,025£15,809£10,305£4,378£182,516
2020-21118£149,006£18,450£10,703£2,244£180,402
2021-22100£151,607£14,075£10,673£5,198£181,553
2022-23146£168,401£19,103£11,002£4,052£202,558
2023-24129£192,430£18,190£11,384£4,172£226,177
2024-25110£196,993£16,714£13,219£2,434£229,359
2025-2644—£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, 2025-26

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

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Cleaning services4£1,260
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage2£1,110
Newspapers, journals, magazines5£922
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs4£910
Software & applications3£891
Insurance - contents1£616

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Council tax12£1,580
Utilities3£304

Largest claims, 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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
25 July 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsElected technologies£738£738
19 February 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£619£619
27 November 2025Office CostsInsurance - contentsBusiness insurance£616£616
13 August 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£491£491
9 April 2025Office CostsWaste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collectionTrade Waste£411£411
12 November 2025Office CostsCleaning services[***][***][***]£378£378
16 July 2025Office CostsCleaning services[***][***][***]£378£378
21 January 2026Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsNant Ltd£300£300
29 September 2025Office CostsStationery & printingCartridge Shop£279£279
2 March 2026Office CostsCleaning services[***] [***]£252£252
22 January 2026Office CostsCleaning services[***][***][***]£252£252
14 October 2025Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsUK Safety Management£245£245
17 February 2026Office CostsStationery & printingCartridge Save£233£233
24 February 2026Office CostsNewspapers, journals, magazinesFT£219£219
19 November 2025Office CostsNewspapers, journals, magazinesFT£219£219

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £150 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.

All MPs’ business costs · Pat McFadden’s register of interests and votes · Sources