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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, 2025-26

115 claims, £24,061 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.94£20,00183.1%
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.21£4,06016.9%

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, 2025-26

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

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Bought-in services7£4,583
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs1£3,250
Software & applications16£2,892
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage19£2,057
Business rates2£1,453
Mobile telephone - contract & usage12£1,372

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Utilities10£2,364
Council tax11£1,695

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
26 March 2026Office CostsMaintenance, Redecorations & RepairsPainter£3,250£3,250
16 March 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£1,435£1,435
24 March 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesComms & Media£1,380£1,380
9 June 2025Office CostsBusiness ratesRHONDDA CYNON TAFF BOR£871£871
16 January 2026Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES£738£738
10 July 2025AccommodationUtilitiesElectricity£672£672
20 March 2026Office CostsMoving FeesAgency fees£621£621
15 January 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011800-139]£604£604
2 February 2026Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£594£594
27 October 2025Office CostsBusiness ratesRHONDDA CYNON TAFF BOR£582£582
19 August 2025Office CostsBought-in servicesProfessional & consultancy£474£474
23 January 2026AccommodationUtilitiesElectricity£447£447
12 December 2025Office CostsSoftware & applicationsLATER.COM£417£417
27 November 2025Office CostsInsurance - contentsHOWDEN UK BROKERS LIMI£337£337
17 March 2026Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£304£304

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