MPs’ business costs

Stuart Anderson

IPSA paid £1,359,413 against 1,261 published rows for Stuart Anderson between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Wolverhampton South West BC, then South Shropshire CC. 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

95 claims, £41,073 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	£1,476	3.6%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	64	£20,880	50.8%
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.	27	£6,237	15.2%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	3	£12,480	30.4%

Every year in the register

Stuart 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	Accommodation	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2019-20	85	£32,331	£16,481	£4,108	£3,504	—	£56,424
2020-21	301	£151,732	£32,883	£21,678	£4,278	—	£210,571
2021-22	186	£180,919	£23,894	£24,965	£5,053	£89	£234,920
2022-23	209	£191,997	£20,920	£25,055	£4,584	£154	£242,711
2023-24	193	£217,053	£17,019	£31,093	£5,445	—	£270,611
2024-25	192	£212,504	£24,553	£30,582	£6,505	£28,960	£303,103
2025-26	95	£1,476	£20,880	£6,237	—	£12,480	£41,073

A year in which Stuart 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, 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Bought-in services	1	£1,476

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Stationery & printing	15	£8,721
Utilities	6	£5,161
Software & applications	8	£1,428
Equipment - purchase	9	£1,273
Postage & couriers	1	£1,095
Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	1	£867

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Utilities	18	£3,312
Council tax	9	£2,925

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Approved costs outside the Scheme	1	£10,500
Bought-in services	2	£1,980

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.

Date	Category	Cost type	Description	Claimed	Paid
28 July 2025	Miscellaneous	Approved costs outside the Scheme	Office closure wolverhampton as agreed see notes	£10,500	£10,500
10 July 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner August 2025	£2,964	£2,964
1 September 2025	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£2,093	£2,093
2 October 2025	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£1,604	£1,604
16 December 2025	Staffing	Bought-in services	Administrative services	£1,476	£1,476
16 May 2025	Miscellaneous	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£1,440	£1,440
15 May 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner June 2025	£1,358	£1,358
11 March 2026	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	Postage	£1,095	£1,095
21 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing	£1,039	£1,039
10 January 2026	Office Costs	Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	IT Equipment	£867	£867
7 May 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing	£722	£722
15 February 2026	Office Costs	Software & applications	Software Annual Subscription	£609	£609
20 January 2026	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£573	£573
26 July 2025	Miscellaneous	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£540	£540
12 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing	£525	£525

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 £130 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 Stuart 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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