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MPs’ business costs

Wendy Chamberlain

IPSA paid £1,364,326 against 646 published rows for Wendy Chamberlain between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for North East Fife 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

52 claims, £14,494 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.50£12,05183.1%
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.2£2,44216.9%

Every year in the register

Wendy Chamberlain’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2019-2041£25,757£5,829£9,762£5,821£460£47,629
2020-2173£162,216£12,128£23,804£4,284—£202,431
2021-2269£179,264£12,055£25,909£9,516—£226,745
2022-23147£211,758£23,654£26,840£12,011—£274,264
2023-24127£226,930£21,170£29,502£11,859—£289,461
2024-25137£243,717£19,502£30,498£15,584—£309,302
2025-2652—£12,051£2,442——£14,494

A year in which Wendy Chamberlain 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
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage13£2,474
Software & applications4£2,206
Utilities2£2,170
Stationery & printing8£1,599
Cleaning services12£1,509
Advertising and contact cards3£566

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Council tax2£2,442

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
2 April 2025AccommodationCouncil taxLONDON BOROUGH OF LAMB£2,000£2,000
19 December 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£1,476£1,476
3 June 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£1,175£1,175
28 August 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£994£994
14 July 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£509£509
6 October 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£500£500
6 January 2026Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£500£500
30 May 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£480£480
4 April 2025Office CostsLandline phone & internet - rental & usageLandline£470£470
2 April 2025AccommodationCouncil taxLONDON BOROUGH OF LAMB£442£442
6 November 2025Office CostsStationery & printingAMAZON [***]£394£394
30 April 2025Office CostsService charge & ground RentAnnual invoice for Service Charge - [***] - Constituency Office£383£383
24 November 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsSEARCH POINT UK£314£314
17 October 2025Office CostsStationery & printingAMAZON UK [***]£306£306
28 May 2025Office CostsStationery & printingWWW.AMAZON. [***]£283£283

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 Wendy Chamberlain 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 · Wendy Chamberlain’s register of interests and votes · Sources