MPs’ business costs

Anna Sabine

IPSA paid £235,783 against 285 published rows for Anna Sabine between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Frome and East Somerset 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

83 claims, £12,215 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	£600	4.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	66	£10,234	83.8%
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.	15	£1,381	11.3%

Every year in the register

Anna Sabine’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	Total
2024-25	202	£173,226	£25,124	£17,407	£7,812	£223,568
2025-26	83	£600	£10,234	£1,381	—	£12,215

A year in which Anna Sabine 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
Training - staff	2	£600

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Software & applications	6	£2,338
Bought-in services	4	£2,000
Advertising and contact cards	18	£1,883
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	8	£854
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	5	£713
Training - staff	2	£600

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Utilities	15	£1,381

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
29 July 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
12 March 2026	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Comms & Media	£500	£500
4 February 2026	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Comms & Media	£500	£500
7 January 2026	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Comms & Media	£500	£500
8 December 2025	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Comms & Media	£500	£500
25 July 2024	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011800-209]	£469	£469
28 January 2026	Staffing	Training - staff	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£300	£300
28 January 2026	Office Costs	Training - staff	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200013052-1]	£300	£300
28 January 2026	Staffing	Training - staff	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£300	£300
28 January 2026	Office Costs	Training - staff	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200013052-1]	£300	£300
10 June 2025	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£243	£243
23 May 2025	Office Costs	Venue hire, meetings & surgeries	—	£234	£234
16 June 2025	Office Costs	Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	Landline	£190	£190
23 March 2026	Accommodation	Utilities	Gas	£181	£181
15 May 2025	Accommodation	Utilities	Other fuel	£179	£179

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 Anna Sabine 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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