MPs’ business costs

Andrew Ranger

IPSA paid £147,247 against 101 published rows for Andrew Ranger between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Wrexham 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

34 claims, £8,083 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.	33	£8,018	99.2%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£66	0.8%

Every year in the register

Andrew Ranger’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2024-25 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
2024-25	67	£94,353	£14,346	£21,660	£8,804	—	£139,164
2025-26	34	—	£8,018	—	—	£66	£8,083

A year in which Andrew Ranger 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
Software & applications	4	£2,563
Stationery & printing	9	£2,431
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	10	£1,529
Equipment - purchase	1	£411
Training - staff	1	£400
Bought-in services	1	£256

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Translation services (Welsh Language)	1	£66

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
16 June 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
17 March 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Calling Cards, Business Cards and Stickers for School Visits	£802	£802
13 October 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	CLICKUP	£783	£783
7 July 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£411	£411
10 February 2026	Office Costs	Training - staff	Phone camera & media training for constituency staff to allow for engagement with constituents.	£400	£400
12 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2026	£299	£299
12 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2026	£299	£299
12 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2026	£299	£299
29 April 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£272	£272
3 October 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Printing of calling cards and business cards	£267	£267
8 July 2025	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Comms & Media	£256	£256
12 January 2026	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner February 2026	£248	£248
14 August 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	SURVEYMONK T [***]	£228	£228
15 January 2026	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£140	£140
15 December 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline & internet package	£140	£140

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 Andrew Ranger 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 · Andrew Ranger’s register of interests and votes · Sources