MPs’ business costs

Stuart Andrew

IPSA paid £3,101,646 against 1,777 published rows for Stuart Andrew between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Pudsey BC, then Daventry 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, 2016-17

110 claims, £184,064 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.	2	£134,859	73.3%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	75	£23,480	12.8%
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.	32	£19,124	10.4%
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	£6,601	3.6%

Every year in the register

Stuart Andrew’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	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	163	£66,702	£14,466	£16,716	£5,048	—	£102,932
2011-12	242	£115,275	£17,523	£17,239	£4,435	—	£154,472
2012-13	161	£134,152	£14,778	£17,481	£7,806	—	£174,217
2013-14	195	£133,260	£19,647	£18,461	£5,337	—	£176,705
2014-15	112	£133,996	£24,811	£17,236	£6,256	—	£182,300
2015-16	74	£132,265	£23,466	£17,670	£7,885	—	£181,287
2016-17	110	£134,859	£23,480	£19,124	£6,601	—	£184,064
2017-18	84	£142,731	£24,121	£18,324	£5,705	—	£190,882
2018-19	94	£144,549	£24,995	£21,344	£7,421	—	£198,310
2019-20	103	£152,780	£23,878	£18,162	£9,062	—	£203,882
2020-21	65	£180,000	£10,927	£21,860	£3,882	£500	£217,168
2021-22	54	£195,092	£9,239	£23,905	£6,997	—	£235,233
2022-23	78	£200,063	£20,348	£23,265	£8,705	£642	£253,023
2023-24	70	£209,083	£17,824	£27,282	£7,211	—	£261,400
2024-25	113	£240,642	£23,483	£29,062	£9,211	£65,153	£367,552
2025-26	59	—	£15,679	£2,260	—	£281	£18,220

A year in which Stuart Andrew 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, 2016-17

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£132,155
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£2,704

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Const Office Rent	5	£14,430
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	16	£4,984
Business Rates	2	£2,476
Const Office Electricity	11	£1,103
Stationery Purchase	13	£1,094
Computer SW Purchase	1	£900

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	15	£17,210
Council Tax	10	£863
Service Charges	1	£721
Electricity	6	£330

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£6,601

Largest claims, 2016-17

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 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£132,155	£132,155
31 March 2017	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2016-17	£6,601	£6,601
17 October 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£3,675	£3,675
8 August 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£3,675	£3,675
19 April 2016	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£3,675	£3,675
14 April 2016	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRU	£2,704	£2,704
20 January 2017	Office Costs	Const Office Rent	—	£2,237	£2,237
9 February 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,517	£1,517
20 January 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,430	£1,430
18 December 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,430	£1,430
18 November 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,430	£1,430
16 October 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,430	£1,430
16 September 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,430	£1,430
16 August 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,430	£1,430
20 July 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	—	£1,430	£1,430

Claims refused and money repaid, 2016-17

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £30 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 Andrew 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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