MPs’ business costs

David Davis

IPSA paid £2,713,984 against 2,747 published rows for David Davis between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for Haltemprice and Howden CC, then Goole and Pocklington 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, 2012-13

145 claims, £165,563 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
Staffing	The 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.	14	£121,656	73.5%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	109	£19,312	11.7%
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.	21	£18,891	11.4%
Travel	Journeys 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.	1	£5,705	3.4%

Every year in the register

David Davis’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2010-11 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	Miscellaneous	Total
2010-11	131	£88,854	£5,894	£12,121	£4,335	—	£111,204
2011-12	128	£110,888	£13,576	£18,768	£5,736	—	£148,967
2012-13	145	£121,656	£19,312	£18,891	£5,705	—	£165,563
2013-14	149	£136,653	£16,733	£19,042	£6,018	—	£178,447
2014-15	140	£137,659	£11,426	£19,126	£5,946	—	£174,157
2015-16	156	£130,860	£10,889	£18,862	£6,165	—	£166,776
2016-17	117	£113,351	£8,088	£19,077	£7,055	—	£147,571
2017-18	112	£98,444	£5,737	£18,691	£4,320	—	£127,192
2018-19	146	£105,072	£22,091	£19,065	£7,850	—	£154,078
2019-20	167	£134,788	£14,618	£23,058	£9,712	—	£182,176
2020-21	213	£129,453	£22,449	£23,010	£4,440	—	£179,352
2021-22	213	£147,628	£19,134	£23,290	£5,876	—	£195,928
2022-23	254	£205,837	£23,390	£25,080	£6,091	—	£260,398
2023-24	246	£173,208	£26,356	£24,602	£5,259	—	£229,425
2024-25	324	£212,267	£31,128	£29,290	£5,587	£581	£278,853
2025-26	106	—	£13,025	£871	—	—	£13,896

A year in which David Davis 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, 2012-13

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

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Payroll	1	£120,516
Public Tr UND Int/Volntr	12	£1,086
Public Tr RAIL Int/Volntr - RT	1	£55

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Professional Services: Direct	2	£5,910
Stationery Purchase	42	£5,366
Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental	33	£4,293
Website - Design/Production	3	£1,000
Legal Expenses Insurance	1	£604
Contents Insurance	1	£550

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Accommodation Rent	12	£17,400
Water	3	£1,155
Telephone Usage/Rental	4	£207
Electricity	2	£129

Travel

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Aggregated Travel Costs	1	£5,705

Largest claims, 2012-13

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
31 March 2013	Staffing	Payroll	Total payroll costs for the 2012-13 year	£120,516	£120,516
31 March 2013	Travel	Aggregated Travel Costs	Aggregated figure for travel during 2012-13	£5,705	£5,705
7 May 2012	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	PRU	£3,960	£3,960
1 June 2012	Office Costs	Professional Services: Direct	ERG	£1,950	£1,950
24 March 2013	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation March 2013	£1,450	£1,450
24 February 2013	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	London Accommodation Feb 2013	£1,450	£1,450
24 January 2013	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation Jan 2013	£1,450	£1,450
24 December 2012	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation Dec 2012	£1,450	£1,450
24 November 2012	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation Nov 2012	£1,450	£1,450
24 October 2012	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation Oct 2012	£1,450	£1,450
24 September 2012	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation Sept 2012	£1,450	£1,450
28 August 2012	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation Aug 2012	£1,450	£1,450
28 July 2012	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation July 2012	£1,450	£1,450
28 June 2012	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation June 2012	£1,450	£1,450
28 May 2012	Accommodation	Accommodation Rent	Accommodation May 2102	£1,450	£1,450

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 Davis 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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