MPs’ business costs
Danny Beales
IPSA paid £201,101 against 230 published rows for Danny Beales between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip 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, 2025-26
80 claims, £19,574 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. | 80 | £19,574 | 100.0% |
Every year in the register
Danny Beales’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 | Travel | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 150 | £153,717 | £27,144 | £665 | £181,527 |
| 2025-26 | 80 | — | £19,574 | — | £19,574 |
A year in which Danny Beales 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising and contact cards | 26 | £9,315 |
| Software & applications | 4 | £2,617 |
| Business rates | 4 | £2,061 |
| Utilities | 5 | £1,557 |
| Stationery & printing | 4 | £1,162 |
| Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | 9 | £890 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 November 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | JOGPOST | £2,102 | £2,102 |
| 27 January 2026 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | JHB MEDIA GROUP | £2,030 | £2,030 |
| 15 July 2025 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES | £1,476 | £1,476 |
| 20 October 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | JOGPOST | £1,150 | £1,150 |
| 21 October 2025 | Office Costs | Utilities | Not Applicable | £1,070 | £1,070 |
| 5 January 2026 | Office Costs | Business rates | Hi, this payment relates to overdue business rates. We have £2,500 set aside from last year’s budget, agreed with our account manager, as the council delayed this process and we were only billed at the end of October. Since then, we have been disputing th | £1,031 | £1,031 |
| 5 January 2026 | Office Costs | Business rates | Hi, this payment relates to overdue business rates. We have £2,500 set aside from last year’s budget, agreed with our account manager, as the council delayed this process and we were only billed at the end of October. Since then, we have been disputing th | £1,030 | £1,030 |
| 3 September 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | JOGPOST | £821 | £821 |
| 13 May 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | JOGPOST | £710 | £710 |
| 15 July 2025 | Office Costs | Bought-in services | Comms & Media | £600 | £600 |
| 28 August 2024 | Office Costs | Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011793-244] | £552 | £552 |
| 11 December 2025 | Office Costs | Advertising and contact cards | SURVEYSPARROW | £515 | £515 |
| 9 February 2026 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | office printer ink 4x colour and black ink ordered via Amazon | £390 | £390 |
| 8 December 2025 | Office Costs | Stationery & printing | black and coloured ink for the office printer | £390 | £390 |
| 29 August 2024 | Office Costs | Service charge & ground Rent | Service Charge 2024/5 [200011793-243] | £388 | £388 |
Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26
14 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £5,481 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 Danny Beales 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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