MPs’ business costs

David Simmonds

IPSA paid £1,118,062 against 300 published rows for David Simmonds between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner 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

15 claims, £4,380 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.	15	£4,380	100.0%

Every year in the register

David Simmonds’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2019-20 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
2019-20	26	£42,932	£1,171	£224	£44,327
2020-21	46	£168,658	£14,655	£729	£184,042
2021-22	38	£180,969	£12,622	£637	£194,228
2022-23	47	£188,782	£16,494	£1,602	£206,878
2023-24	70	£211,579	£18,123	£1,607	£231,309
2024-25	58	£238,409	£13,457	£1,031	£252,897
2025-26	15	—	£4,380	—	£4,380

A year in which David Simmonds 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
Software & applications	2	£1,836
Stationery & printing	8	£1,438
Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	1	£699
Advertising and contact cards	3	£351
Equipment - purchase	1	£56

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
19 January 2026	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
6 May 2025	Office Costs	Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	New iphone to replace old one which is failing	£699	£699
3 September 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£360	£360
11 August 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA October 2025	£283	£283
10 December 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	SQ HILLINGDON PRINT L	£222	£222
11 September 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA October 2025	£205	£205
11 September 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA October 2025	£205	£205
11 September 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA October 2025	£205	£205
10 September 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Regular advert for surgeries in The Pinner Assocation magazine, The Villager	£186	£186
11 September 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	XMA October 2025	£167	£167
14 July 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Regular advert in St Marys parish magazine, harefield	£85	£85
21 July 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Regular advert in the Pinner Association publication	£80	£80
1 September 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	VISTAPRINT	£79	£79
8 August 2025	Office Costs	Stationery & printing	Banner September 2025	£71	£71
6 November 2025	Office Costs	Equipment - purchase	Other office equipment	£56	£56

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 Simmonds 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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