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MPs’ business costs

David Pinto-Duschinsky

IPSA paid £196,383 against 125 published rows for David Pinto-Duschinsky between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Hendon 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, £27,633 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.80£27,633100.0%

Every year in the register

David Pinto-Duschinsky’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsTotal
2024-2545£147,896£20,854£168,750
2025-2680—£27,633£27,633

A year in which David Pinto-Duschinsky 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 typeClaimsPaid
Equipment - purchase15£7,040
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries25£4,966
Stationery & printing17£4,923
Utilities6£3,848
Advertising and contact cards11£3,756
Moving Fees2£2,000

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.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
21 July 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cards56,000 copies yearly update newsletter£2,595£2,595
4 April 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOther office equipment£1,944£1,944
28 May 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOffice furniture£1,510£1,510
19 September 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£1,500£1,500
22 September 2025Office CostsUtilitiesElectricity£1,477£1,477
29 August 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOther office equipment£1,476£1,476
22 April 2025Office CostsMoving FeesLegal costs£1,200£1,200
17 September 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner October 2025£931£931
22 October 2025Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£800£800
22 April 2025Office CostsMoving FeesLegal costs£800£800
5 November 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOffice furniture£747£747
9 September 2024Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011793-356]£485£485
17 September 2025Office CostsStationery & printingBanner October 2025£458£458
24 June 2025Office CostsEquipment - purchaseOffice furniture£414£414
12 September 2025Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£407£407

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 Pinto-Duschinsky 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.

All MPs’ business costs · David Pinto-Duschinsky’s register of interests and votes · Sources