MPs’ business costs

Jonathan Davies

IPSA paid £185,493 against 233 published rows for Jonathan Davies between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Mid Derbyshire 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

90 claims, £26,864 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.	61	£12,615	47.0%
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.	29	£14,249	53.0%

Every year in the register

Jonathan Davies’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	Total
2024-25	143	£109,455	£19,961	£14,866	£14,347	£158,629
2025-26	90	—	£12,615	£14,249	—	£26,864

A year in which Jonathan Davies 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
Postage & couriers	8	£2,466
Advertising and contact cards	10	£2,315
Stationery & printing	11	£2,054
Software & applications	3	£2,009
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage	10	£990
Bought-in services	3	£654

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Hotel - London	27	£13,787
Council tax	1	£365
Utilities	1	£97

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
30 June 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£2,716	£2,716
19 May 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£2,230	£2,230
15 August 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES	£1,476	£1,476
14 October 2025	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	Postage for Youth Survey	£696	£696
13 May 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	BKG HOTEL AT BOOKING.C	£690	£690
22 May 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	Accommodation in London during parliament sitting	£675	£675
20 November 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
30 October 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£660	£660
2 September 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	HOTEL AT BOOKING.COM	£659	£659
22 May 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£601	£601
27 November 2025	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	Delivery of MP leaflets	£600	£600
14 October 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£597	£597
24 April 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£552	£552
12 June 2025	Office Costs	Postage & couriers	ROYAL MAIL DOOR TO DOO	£500	£500
22 May 2025	Accommodation	Hotel - London	[*][][**]	£448	£448

Claims refused and money repaid, 2025-26

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £606 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 Jonathan Davies 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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