UK Parliament · member 3935
Rt Hon Sir Mel Stride MP
- Party
- Conservative — Conservative and Unionist Party
- Constituency
- Central Devon
- Member for this seat since
- 6 May 2010
- In the records
- Every register entry that names Sir Mel Stride, and how each was tied to them
Declared interests
MPs must register financial interests within 28 days. This is the register’s own text, republished verbatim from the official Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Registering an interest is a requirement met, not a finding against anyone.
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP
- Susan Green - £5,000.00 (registered 10 August 2026)
- David Archer - £1,500.00 (registered 29 July 2026)
- David Archer - £5,000.00 (registered 29 July 2026)
- Park Garage Group PLC - £1,500.00 (registered 29 July 2026)
- Park Garage Group PLC - £10,000.00 (registered 29 July 2026)
- Robert Derek Calrow - £897.00 (registered 15 July 2026)
- Robert Derek Calrow - £5,000.00 (registered 15 July 2026)
- Andrew Dawber - £5,000.00 (registered 8 July 2026)
- John Ruskin - £897.00 (registered 8 July 2026)
- John Ruskin - £5,000.00 (registered 8 July 2026)
- Paddy Nicoll - £897.00 (registered 19 May 2026)
- Paddy Nicoll - £10,000.00 (registered 19 May 2026)
- Brechin Investment Ltd - £1,514.00 (registered 7 May 2026)
- Andrew Dawber - £1,483.00 (registered 30 April 2026)
- Joy Dawber - £1,514.00 (registered 30 April 2026)
- Susan Green - £2,000.00 (registered 10 February 2026)
- IPGL Limited - £2,000.00 (registered 10 February 2026)
- J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited - £25,000.00 (registered 20 November 2025)
- Graham Edwards - £4,000.00 (registered 30 September 2025)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
- Hakluyt - £550.00 (registered 29 June 2026)
- British Asian Trust - £2,000.00 (registered 24 June 2026)
- Lloyds Banking Group PLC - £1,839.00 (registered 26 May 2026)
- The Conservative Party Foundation - £600.00 (registered 26 May 2026)
- Kensington, Bayswater, Chelsea & Fulham Conservatives - £340.00 (registered 18 December 2025)
Visits outside the UK
- International visit to United States between 06 September 2025 and 10 September 2025 (registered 30 September 2025)
Shareholdings
- Shares in Venture Marketing Group Ltd
Miscellaneous
- Honorary Fellowship awarded by St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. This is an unpaid role. (registered 7 November 2025)
Source: UK Parliament Register of Members’ Financial Interests API (Open Parliament Licence). Amounts are shown only where the register itself records one as a figure; nothing is parsed out of the free text.
Voting record
In the 324 recorded divisions where Sir Mel Stride and at least one other Conservative member were recorded voting, Sir Mel Stride voted the same way as most voting Conservative members 321 times (99.1%).
This compares Sir Mel Stride with other members of their own party who were recorded voting in the same division. It is not a measure of loyalty to a whip: Civometry holds no whipping records, so it cannot say which votes were whipped, and voting differently from party colleagues is not described here as a rebellion. Members not recorded in a division are excluded from the comparison rather than counted, because an absence from a division list is not a vote and does not mean the member was absent from the House.
Donations reported to the Electoral Commission
£67,000 across 7 reported donations from 6 distinct donor names, received from 1 January 2019 onward.
| Donor (as published) | Status | Donations | Total value | Received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Wilkinson | Individual | 2 | £40,000 | 2024-08-01 to 2024-09-06 |
| Paddy Nicoll | Individual | 1 | £10,000 | 2026-04-27 |
| Andrew Dawber | Individual | 1 | £5,000 | 2026-06-17 |
| John Ruskin | Individual | 1 | £5,000 | 2026-06-22 |
| Graham Edwards | Individual | 1 | £4,000 | 2025-09-12 |
| Gareth Penny | Individual | 1 | £3,000 | 2024-08-13 |
Source: Electoral Commission register of donations. Reporting thresholds apply, so this is not every sum given. A donation is a lawful, reported transaction; its presence here says nothing about why it was made and nothing about anything that followed it.
Staffing and business costs paid by IPSA
2025-26: £7,396 across 37 claim lines; 2024-25: £236,575 across 188 claim lines; 2023-24: £225,764 across 164 claim lines.
| Year | Category | Claim lines | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Accommodation | 17 | £3,778 |
| 2025-26 | Office Costs | 20 | £3,618 |
| 2024-25 | Staffing | 2 | £199,284 |
| 2024-25 | Accommodation | 26 | £21,947 |
| 2024-25 | Office Costs | 152 | £11,627 |
| 2024-25 | MP Travel | 2 | £2,154 |
| 2024-25 | Staff Travel | 3 | £806 |
| 2024-25 | Dependant Travel | 3 | £757 |
| 2023-24 | Staffing | 2 | £198,413 |
| 2023-24 | Accommodation | 31 | £19,101 |
| 2023-24 | Office Costs | 125 | £4,373 |
| 2023-24 | MP Travel | 2 | £1,886 |
| 2023-24 | Staff Travel | 3 | £1,789 |
| 2023-24 | Dependant Travel | 1 | £203 |
| Date | Category | Description | Paid | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2017 | Office Costs · Tel/Mobile Purchase | Office Costs to 20 Jul — iSmash iPhone repair | £100 | Paid |
| 16 June 2017 | Office Costs · Tel/Mobile Purchase | Office Costs to 16 Jun — iSmash iPhone repair | £100 | Paid |
| 21 October 2017 | Office Costs · Website - Hosting | Office Costs Oct 17 — 1and1 web hosting | £100 | Paid |
| 2 November 2017 | Office Costs · Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental | Office Costs to 30 Nov 17 — BT Constinuency Office calls | £98 | Paid |
| 10 July 2025 | Accommodation · Utilities | Electricity — Octopus Electricity Bill | £98 | Paid |
| 2 August 2018 | Office Costs · Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental | Office Costs to 23 Aug — BT Constinuency Office calls | £98 | Paid |
| 15 December 2017 | Office Costs · Stationery Purchase | XMA Ltd — XMA December invoice for stationery | £965 | Paid |
| 1 November 2016 | Office Costs · Const Office Rent | Constit Office Costs Oct 16 — Office Rent to Dec 16 | £960 | Paid |
| 31 March 2012 | Staffing · Payroll | Total payroll costs for the 2011-12 year — Total payroll costs for the 2011-12 year | £95,663 | Paid |
| 10 April 2025 | Office Costs · Software & applications | Dropbox Subscription | £96 | Paid |
| 10 April 2024 | Office Costs · Software & applications | Dropbox subscription | £96 | Paid |
| 10 April 2023 | Office Costs · Software & applications | Dropbox | £96 | Paid |
| 10 April 2022 | Office Costs · Software & applications | Dropbox storage | £96 | Paid |
| 10 April 2021 | Office Costs · Software & applications | Dropbox storage | £96 | Paid |
| 29 June 2020 | Office Costs · Software & applications | Dropbox storage | £96 | Paid |
Source: IPSA, MP staffing and business costs (Open Government Licence v3), joined on IPSA’s Parliamentary ID, which is Parliament’s member id. These are the running costs of an MP’s office and staff, claimed within IPSA’s rules and paid by IPSA; they are not the member’s salary and not personal income. A claim is a claim, not a finding. Staffing costs are published by IPSA in aggregate categories, not per employee.
Meetings recorded in departmental transparency returns
87 meetings recorded under this name as a minister in the quarterly returns of Cabinet Office, Department for Work and Pensions. The name in the department’s file matched exactly one member of the Commons, which is the only reason it is shown here.
| Date | Met | Purpose, as recorded | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2024 | Lord Cricket Ground | Visit to meet and talk to pensioners about the uprating of pensions, triple lock, retirement and other pensions policies. | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 19 December 2023 | Paddington Development Trust | A meeting to discuss the annoucement on Winter fuel payments for the elderly | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 12 December 2023 | British Chamber of Commerce | A meeting to discuss the Labour market strategies and the options to move people closer to work | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 29 November 2023 | LBC Radio | An interview to discuss fraud, error and prevention and how this can be tackled in the benefit sytem | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 22 November 2023 | Disability Charities Consortium (DCC) | A meeting to discuss policy, and how barriers can be removed to support disabled people back into work. | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 8 November 2023 | British Chamber of Commerce | A meeting to discuss the Labour market and how we can improve the number of people back into work | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 11 October 2023 | Shaw Trust | A meeting to discuss the opportunities that Shaw Trust provide for their customers | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 3 October 2023 | The Sunday Times, Ben Taylor, Editor | Regular political engagement with Media Representative | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 3 October 2023 | The Times, Tony Gallagher, Editor | Regular political engagement with Media Representative | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 2 October 2023 | The Sunday Telegraph, Alister Heath, Editor | Regular political engagement with Media Representative | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 2 October 2023 | The Telegraph, Chris Evans, Editor | Regular Political engagement with Media Representative | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 28 September 2023 | Youth Build | An Interview to discuss youth employment | Department for Work and Pensions |
Source: each department’s “ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings” return on GOV.UK (Open Government Licence v3), read by Civometry and listed under ministerial transparency. A recorded meeting establishes that the department published the line; it does not establish what was said or what followed. Every meeting is on the member’s graph page.
Sources on this page: UK Parliament Members API, Register of Members’ Financial Interests API and Commons Votes API (Open Parliament Licence); Electoral Commission register of donations; IPSA business costs. Each section links its own official record. This page assembles public registers and draws no conclusion from their appearing together.