MPs’ business costs

Fleur Anderson

IPSA paid £1,340,194 against 613 published rows for Fleur Anderson between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Putney BC. 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, 2019-20 to 2025-26

613 claims, £1,340,194 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.	14	£1,178,927	88.0%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	581	£156,034	11.6%
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.	17	£3,792	0.3%
Miscellaneous	Claims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.	1	£1,440	0.1%

Every year in the register

Fleur Anderson’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.

Year	Claims	Staffing	Office costs	Travel	Miscellaneous	Total
2019-20	23	£25,380	£2,676	—	—	£28,055
2020-21	56	£178,416	£40,974	—	—	£219,390
2021-22	118	£217,812	£28,940	£16	—	£246,767
2022-23	100	£236,440	£29,842	£550	—	£266,833
2023-24	117	£252,789	£24,888	£2,372	—	£280,049
2024-25	185	£268,091	£25,651	£855	£1,440	£296,037
2025-26	14	—	£3,064	—	—	£3,064

A year in which Fleur Anderson 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, 2019-20 to 2025-26

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	6	£1,168,116
Pooled staffing services	3	£8,250
Training - staff	5	£2,562

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	42	£67,708
Stationery & printing	321	£31,048
Pooled staffing services	3	£13,300
Equipment - purchase	58	£11,880
Software & applications	19	£6,261
Business rates	2	£4,377

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Air travel	5	£1,841
Hotel - UK Not London	4	£1,282
Vehicle hire cost	2	£279
Hotel - European	1	£210
Other public transport	2	£104
Rail	2	£62

Miscellaneous

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Bought-in services	1	£1,440

Largest claims, 2019-20 to 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
31 March 2025	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year	£268,091	£268,091
31 March 2024	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2023-24 year	£252,789	£252,789
31 March 2023	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2022-23 year	£236,440	£236,440
31 March 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£212,804	£212,804
31 March 2021	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2020-21 year	£173,488	£173,488
31 March 2020	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2019-20 year	£24,503	£24,503
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£16,322	£16,322
31 March 2025	Office Costs	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25	£10,200	£10,200
12 April 2024	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£4,600	£4,600
28 April 2023	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£4,500	£4,500
6 November 2020	Office Costs	Business rates	Annual Business Rates payable to Wandsworth Borough Council for registered constituency office	£4,377	£4,377
7 September 2022	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£4,200	£4,200
2 September 2021	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£4,200	£4,200
11 November 2020	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Letterbox Distribution Invoice [***]	£3,793	£3,793
27 May 2020	Staffing	Pooled staffing services	Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)	£3,600	£3,600

Claims refused and money repaid, 2019-20 to 2025-26

3 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £4,676 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 Fleur Anderson 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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