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, 2025-26

59 claims, £18,220 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
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	42	£15,679	86.1%
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.	15	£2,260	12.4%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	2	£281	1.5%

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, 2025-26

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

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Advertising and contact cards	8	£5,637
Stationery & printing	15	£3,234
Equipment - purchase	2	£2,731
Service charge & ground Rent	12	£1,953
Software & applications	2	£1,554
Website hosting and design	1	£360

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Utilities	10	£953
Council tax	3	£917
Cleaning services	1	£340
Landline phone & internet - installation & equipment purchase	1	£50

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Removals	2	£281

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
4 March 2026	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	BACS Payment for Designing, Printing and Posting of Stuart´s Annual Report for his Constituents	£4,313	£4,313
26 January 2026	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£2,676	£2,676
18 February 2026	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
15 April 2025	Accommodation	Council tax	WANDSWORTH COUNCIL	£431	£431
18 July 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Reimbursement for payment of Roller Banner, Contact Cards and Surgery Poster	£384	£384
9 May 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	500 contact cards, A2 Surgery Posters x 2 and 1 Surgery Banner	£384	£384
25 October 2025	Accommodation	Council tax	WANDSWORTH COUNCIL	£380	£380
11 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2026	£374	£374
3 October 2025	Office Costs	Website hosting and design	BLUETREE WEBSITES	£360	£360
8 October 2025	Accommodation	Cleaning services	[***]	£340	£340
16 October 2025	Accommodation	Utilities	Dual Fuel	£338	£338
1 September 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Contact Cards via BACS	£306	£306
11 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2026	£245	£245
11 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2026	£245	£245
6 July 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner August 2025	£245	£245

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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