MPs’ business costs

David Reed

IPSA paid £227,040 against 207 published rows for David Reed between 2024-25 and 2025-26 as the member for Exmouth and Exeter East 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

100 claims, £30,703 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.	3	£3,665	11.9%
Office costs	Renting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.	88	£23,735	77.3%
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.	9	£3,303	10.8%

Every year in the register

David Reed’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	107	£145,855	£21,531	£17,411	£11,540	£196,336
2025-26	100	£3,665	£23,735	£3,303	—	£30,703

A year in which David Reed 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.

Staffing

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Training - staff	2	£3,575
Volunteer - agreed arrangement costs	1	£90

Office costs

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Advertising and contact cards	9	£8,004
Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	4	£3,356
Software & applications	9	£2,325
Stationery & printing	8	£1,608
Utilities	10	£1,592
Equipment - purchase	15	£1,540

Accommodation

Cost type	Claims	Paid
Council tax	2	£2,644
Utilities	7	£660

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
21 November 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Annual report printing and distribution	£5,405	£5,405
19 February 2026	Staffing	Training - staff	Team training	£3,200	£3,200
17 March 2025	Accommodation	Council tax	Council tax	£1,791	£1,791
15 July 2025	Office Costs	Software & applications	Caseworker software	£1,476	£1,476
24 August 2025	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	Office blinds	£1,407	£1,407
11 March 2026	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	Replacing office lights	£1,200	£1,200
20 October 2025	Office Costs	Recruitment Services &Costs	Recruitment	£900	£900
6 December 2024	Accommodation	Council tax	Council tax	£853	£853
9 December 2025	Office Costs	Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs	Constituency office maintenance	£683	£683
5 June 2025	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£606	£606
16 May 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	COPYRITE	£590	£590
12 May 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Design and artwork for signs	£590	£590
13 March 2026	Office Costs	Bought-in services	Professional & consultancy	£540	£540
10 April 2025	Office Costs	Mobile telephone - equipment purchase	IP Phone System Set Up	£449	£449
15 May 2025	Office Costs	Advertising and contact cards	Installation of office signage	£420	£420

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 £590 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 David Reed 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 · David Reed’s register of interests and votes · Sources