MPs’ business costs

Richard Fuller

IPSA paid £2,295,368 against 2,135 published rows for Richard Fuller between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Bedford BC, then North East Bedfordshire CC, then North Bedfordshire 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, 2021-22

103 claims, £205,305 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.	1	£170,772	83.2%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	85	£12,556	6.1%
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.	11	£19,702	9.6%
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.	6	£2,275	1.1%

Every year in the register

Richard Fuller’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	Starting up and winding up	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	136	£72,119	£9,570	£8,597	£2,285	—	—	£92,571
2011-12	193	£94,452	£14,461	£19,729	£1,809	—	—	£130,451
2012-13	229	£106,631	£13,940	£19,935	£1,763	—	—	£142,269
2013-14	228	£110,116	£13,570	£19,760	£1,571	—	—	£145,017
2014-15	211	£111,075	£12,767	£19,405	£1,364	—	—	£144,612
2015-16	195	£130,249	£13,130	£20,028	£1,340	—	—	£164,747
2016-17	185	£129,532	£17,064	£20,532	£2,137	—	—	£169,265
2017-18	78	£24,119	£2,236	£4,383	£154	£44,789	£6,174	£81,855
2019-20	49	£34,378	£3,865	£4,123	£1,419	—	—	£43,786
2020-21	94	£160,836	£16,317	£22,216	£1,725	—	—	£201,094
2021-22	103	£170,772	£12,556	£19,702	£2,275	—	—	£205,305
2022-23	152	£199,374	£13,240	£19,072	£5,028	—	—	£236,714
2023-24	115	£216,294	£9,982	£24,660	£3,543	—	—	£254,478
2024-25	114	£228,127	£15,847	£26,915	£2,497	—	—	£273,386
2025-26	53	—	£5,238	£4,580	—	—	—	£9,818

A year in which Richard Fuller 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, 2021-22

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£170,772

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Pooled staffing services	1	£3,019
Rent	1	£2,920
Working From Home Allowance	1	£1,872
Training - staff	6	£1,152
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	13	£832
Software & applications	2	£740

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rent	1	£18,243
Council tax	10	£1,459

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Rail	2	£1,772
Mileage - car	2	£467
Parking	2	£37

Largest claims, 2021-22

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 2022	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2021-22 year	£170,772	£170,772
31 March 2022	Accommodation	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£18,243	£18,243
5 May 2021	Office Costs	Pooled staffing services	Policy Research Unit (Conservative)	£3,019	£3,019
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Rent	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£2,920	£2,920
31 March 2022	Office Costs	Working From Home Allowance	Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2021-22	£1,872	£1,872
31 March 2022	MP Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£1,246	£1,246
15 December 2021	Office Costs	Software & applications	Annual renewal of Caseworker case management software (operated by Elected Technologies Ltd)	£600	£600
31 March 2022	Staff Travel	Rail	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£526	£526
31 March 2022	Staff Travel	Mileage - car	Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22	£312	£312
23 February 2021	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner March 2021	£227	£227
2 November 2021	Office Costs	Training - staff	ST JOHN AMBULANCE	£192	£192
2 November 2021	Office Costs	Training - staff	ST JOHN AMBULANCE	£192	£192
2 November 2021	Office Costs	Training - staff	ST JOHN AMBULANCE	£192	£192
2 November 2021	Office Costs	Training - staff	ST JOHN AMBULANCE	£192	£192
2 November 2021	Office Costs	Training - staff	ST JOHN AMBULANCE	£192	£192

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 Richard Fuller 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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