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MPs’ business costs

Alex Davies-Jones

IPSA paid £1,365,331 against 1,091 published rows for Alex Davies-Jones between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as the member for Pontypridd 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, 2024-25

188 claims, £313,938 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe 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.1£239,43776.3%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.139£23,1817.4%
AccommodationThe 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.25£35,80411.4%
TravelJourneys 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.13£14,7584.7%
MiscellaneousClaims IPSA records under none of the headings above. Called “Miscellaneous Expenses” until 2018-19.10£7580.2%

Every year in the register

Alex Davies-Jones’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.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2019-2069£14,677£5,163£7,451£4,890—£32,181
2020-21161£163,991£42,082£31,896£4,233—£242,201
2021-22170£175,705£24,376£31,982£10,721—£242,784
2022-23187£164,157£24,544£32,112£13,801—£234,615
2023-24201£202,854£27,505£30,789£14,403—£275,551
2024-25188£239,437£23,181£35,804£14,758£758£313,938
2025-26115—£20,001£4,060——£24,061

A year in which Alex Davies-Jones 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, 2024-25

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

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£239,437

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Pooled staffing services1£4,600
Rent1£4,494
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage13£2,654
Advertising and contact cards10£2,646
Utilities26£2,072
Business rates3£1,496

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rent1£33,364
Council tax11£1,838
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage8£404
Utilities5£198

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rail4£8,583
Hotel - London1£2,199
Hotel - UK Not London1£2,145
Mileage - car4£1,313
Subsistence1£458
Congestion charge & toll1£45

Miscellaneous

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Removals2£424
Translation services (Welsh Language)7£300
Moving Fees1£34

Largest claims, 2024-25

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
31 March 2025StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year£239,437£239,437
31 March 2025AccommodationRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£33,364£33,364
31 March 2025MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£5,807£5,807
12 April 2024Office CostsPooled staffing servicesParliamentary Research Service (Labour)£4,600£4,600
31 March 2025Office CostsRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£4,494£4,494
31 March 2025Staff TravelHotel - LondonAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£2,199£2,199
31 March 2025Staff TravelHotel - UK Not LondonAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£2,145£2,145
31 March 2025Staff TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£2,073£2,073
31 March 2025Dependant TravelMileage - carAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£1,031£1,031
23 August 2024Office CostsBusiness ratesRHONDDA CYNON TAFF BOR£1,005£1,005
17 April 2024Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsAdvertising Alex´s contact details on local radio£800£800
12 March 2025Office CostsAdvertising and contact cardsPitchside board£600£600
31 March 2025Dependant TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£552£552
31 March 2025Staff TravelSubsistenceAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£458£458
20 May 2024Office CostsBusiness ratesRHONDDA CYNON TAFF BOR£433£433

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £229 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 Alex Davies-Jones 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 · Alex Davies-Jones’s register of interests and votes · Sources