MPs’ business costs

David Chadwick

IPSA paid £194,436 against 253 published rows for David Chadwick between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe 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

79 claims, £16,123 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.	66	£9,710	60.2%
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.	13	£6,413	39.8%

Every year in the register

David Chadwick’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	174	£143,924	£26,365	£3,510	£4,501	£14	£178,313
2025-26	79	—	£9,710	£6,413	—	—	£16,123

A year in which David Chadwick 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
Utilities	11	£2,151
Software & applications	3	£2,136
Stationery & printing	7	£1,285
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	9	£1,164
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	4	£825
Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection	2	£722

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	13	£6,413

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
27 June 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
5 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£880	£880
10 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£796	£796
11 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£690	£690
8 January 2026	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£673	£673
4 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
18 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£597	£597
2 September 2024	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011800-120] [200012084-0]	£552	£552
8 August 2025	Office Costs	Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection	BIFFA WASTE SERVICES L	£535	£535
2 December 2025	Office Costs	Utilities	Electricity	£491	£491
15 September 2025	Office Costs	Insurance - buildings	Buildings Insurance June 2025 - June 2026	£475	£475
2 July 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	To attend Parliament	£459	£459
17 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£440	£440
25 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£440	£440
13 October 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£398	£398

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

19 claims carry an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £2,506 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 David Chadwick 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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