MPs’ business costs

David Davis

IPSA paid £2,713,984 against 2,747 published rows for David Davis between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Haltemprice and Howden CC, then Goole and Pocklington 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, 2016-17

117 claims, £147,571 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.	3	£113,351	76.8%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	82	£8,088	5.5%
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.	31	£19,077	12.9%
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.	1	£7,055	4.8%

Every year in the register

David Davis’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	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	131	£88,854	£5,894	£12,121	£4,335	—	£111,204
2011-12	128	£110,888	£13,576	£18,768	£5,736	—	£148,967
2012-13	145	£121,656	£19,312	£18,891	£5,705	—	£165,563
2013-14	149	£136,653	£16,733	£19,042	£6,018	—	£178,447
2014-15	140	£137,659	£11,426	£19,126	£5,946	—	£174,157
2015-16	156	£130,860	£10,889	£18,862	£6,165	—	£166,776
2016-17	117	£113,351	£8,088	£19,077	£7,055	—	£147,571
2017-18	112	£98,444	£5,737	£18,691	£4,320	—	£127,192
2018-19	146	£105,072	£22,091	£19,065	£7,850	—	£154,078
2019-20	167	£134,788	£14,618	£23,058	£9,712	—	£182,176
2020-21	213	£129,453	£22,449	£23,010	£4,440	—	£179,352
2021-22	213	£147,628	£19,134	£23,290	£5,876	—	£195,928
2022-23	254	£205,837	£23,390	£25,080	£6,091	—	£260,398
2023-24	246	£173,208	£26,356	£24,602	£5,259	—	£229,425
2024-25	324	£212,267	£31,128	£29,290	£5,587	£581	£278,853
2025-26	106	—	£13,025	£871	—	—	£13,896

A year in which David Davis 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, 2016-17

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£110,430
Pooled Services: Direct	1	£2,671
Professional Services (Staff.)	1	£250

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Stationery Purchase	11	£2,893
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	28	£2,616
Newspapers/Journals	24	£955
Computer SW Purchase	1	£900
Other Equip Purchase	2	£321
Internet Usage/Rental	10	£278

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	12	£17,400
Council Tax	10	£817
Electricity	5	£606
Telephone Usage/Rental	4	£253

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£7,055

Largest claims, 2016-17

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 2017	Staffing	Payroll	Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2016-17 year	£110,430	£110,430
31 March 2017	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2016-17	£7,055	£7,055
21 April 2016	Staffing	Pooled Services: Direct	PRU	£2,671	£2,671
24 March 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation March 2017	£1,450	£1,450
24 February 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation February 2017	£1,450	£1,450
24 January 2017	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation January 2017	£1,450	£1,450
24 December 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation December 2016	£1,450	£1,450
24 November 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation November 2016	£1,450	£1,450
24 October 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation October 2016	£1,450	£1,450
24 September 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation September 2016	£1,450	£1,450
24 August 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation August 2016	£1,450	£1,450
24 July 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accomodation July 2016	£1,450	£1,450
24 June 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation June 2016	£1,450	£1,450
24 May 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation May 2016	£1,450	£1,450
24 April 2016	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accomodation April 2016	£1,450	£1,450

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 Davis 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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