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Central Devon · Member 3935

Sir Mel Stride

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Official record: members.parliament.uk.

IPSA basic MP salary

£98,599

Effective 1 Apr 2026

RMFI entries

27

Register 820

EC donations matched

8

Fuzzy name match — not RMFI

Member since

6 May 2010

Contact

Published on the Members API contact endpoint. Missing email, phone or street address is shown as unavailable — Watchtower does not invent contact details. Almost every sitting MP lists the House of Commons; a constituency street address is often omitted.

Addresses

Parliamentary office

House of Commons London SW1A 0AA

mel.stride.mp@parliament.uk

020 7219 7037

Official record: members.parliament.uk contact page · Methodology.

Source: UK Parliament Members API (contact). As of 14 Sept 2026.

Salary

IPSA basic MP salary

£98,599

Annual · effective 1 Apr 2026

Source: Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) — MPs’ pay & pensions. As of 1 Apr 2026.

Additional office salary

Not assigned

Ministers, opposition office-holders and select committee chairs may receive a further official salary. This snapshot does not reliably join those posts to named members, so we do not add a guessed uplift.

Additional office salary: see IPSA

How the rate is documented: Parliament methodology.

Councils overlapping this seat

English local authorities whose GE 2024 overlapping constituencies include Central Devon, joined on constituency name (ONS PCON codes are carried on the council side only).

  • Devon

    County council · E10000008 · seat Central Devon (E14001155)

    No overall controlMatched on constituency name

Source: House of Commons Library GE 2024 + ONS constituency–authority lookup (via council snapshot). As of 13 Sept 2026.

Source: UK Parliament Members API (committed snapshot). As of 13 Sept 2026.

Money trail

Register of Members’ Financial Interests

Full register on this page

27

published entries · register 820 · as of 7 Sept 2026

  • Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP19
  • Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources5
  • Miscellaneous1
  • Shareholdings1
  • Visits outside the UK1
Explain this numberRegister of Members’ Financial Interests

Entries the MP has declared in the latest published Commons RMFI. It is a self-declared parliamentary register of interests and gifts above thresholds — not a full income statement.

  • Not all income appears here; thresholds and categories apply.
  • Electoral Commission donations are a different legal register and are shown separately on the MP page.

Source: UK Parliament Interests API (Registers + Interests CSV). As of 7 Sept 2026.

Electoral Commission donations

Matched rows below

8

PEF rows fuzzy-matched to this MP · as of 13 Sept 2026

  • £5,000 · Non Cash from John Ruskin

    Accepted 21 Jun 2026 · match high (1) · NC0840209

  • £5,000 · Non Cash from Andrew Dawber

    Accepted 16 Jun 2026 · match high (1) · NC0840687

  • £10,000 · Non Cash from Paddy Nicoll

    Accepted 26 Apr 2026 · match high (1) · NC0838554

  • £4,000 · Non Cash from Graham Edwards

    Accepted 11 Sept 2025 · match high (1) · NC0833215

  • £11,000 · Visit from Graham Edwards

    Accepted 5 Sept 2025 · match high (1) · V0833216

  • +3 more — see full list.
Explain this numberElectoral Commission donations

Regulated donations to this MP as a donee under political finance law (PEF), fuzzy-matched by name from the Electoral Commission register for the current-Parliament window in this snapshot.

  • Not the Commons Register of Members’ Financial Interests — a separate legal register.
  • Match confidence is labelled. Low-confidence rows are shown so you can reject them; they are not identity proof.
  • Amounts come only from the PEF CSV. We do not invent donation figures.

Source: Electoral Commission PEF donations register. As of 13 Sept 2026 · Regulated donees (et=rd), donee type 'MP - Member of Parliament', accepted on/after 2024-07-04. Newest 80 API pages..

Register of Members’ Financial Interests (deep dive)

Latest Commons register published 7 Sept 2026. This is the parliamentary register — not the Electoral Commission donations file. See How money registers work.

Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP

  • Susan Green - £5,000.00

    £5,000 · Registered 10 Aug 2026 · Official entry

  • David Archer - £5,000.00

    £5,000 · Registered 29 Jul 2026 · Official entry

  • Park Garage Group PLC - £10,000.00

    £10,000 · Registered 29 Jul 2026 · Official entry

  • David Archer - £1,500.00

    £1,500 · Registered 29 Jul 2026 · Official entry

  • Park Garage Group PLC - £1,500.00

    £1,500 · Registered 29 Jul 2026 · Official entry

  • Robert Derek Calrow - £5,000.00

    £5,000 · Registered 15 Jul 2026 · Official entry

  • Robert Derek Calrow - £897.00

    £897 · Registered 15 Jul 2026 · Official entry

  • Andrew Dawber - £5,000.00

    £5,000 · Registered 8 Jul 2026 · Official entry

  • John Ruskin - £897.00

    £897 · Registered 8 Jul 2026 · Official entry

  • John Ruskin - £5,000.00

    £5,000 · Registered 8 Jul 2026 · Official entry

  • Paddy Nicoll - £10,000.00

    £10,000 · Registered 19 May 2026 · Official entry

  • Paddy Nicoll - £897.00

    £897 · Registered 19 May 2026 · Official entry

  • Brechin Investment Ltd - £1,514.00

    £1,514 · Registered 7 May 2026 · Official entry

  • Joy Dawber - £1,514.00

    £1,514 · Registered 30 Apr 2026 · Official entry

  • Andrew Dawber - £1,483.00

    £1,483 · Registered 30 Apr 2026 · Official entry

  • IPGL Limited - £2,000.00

    £2,000 · Registered 10 Feb 2026 · Official entry

  • Susan Green - £2,000.00

    £2,000 · Registered 10 Feb 2026 · Official entry

  • J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited - £25,000.00

    £25,000 · Registered 20 Nov 2025 · Official entry

  • Graham Edwards - £4,000.00

    £4,000 · Registered 30 Sept 2025 · Official entry

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

  • Hakluyt - £550.00

    £550 · Registered 29 Jun 2026 · Official entry

  • British Asian Trust - £2,000.00

    £2,000 · Registered 24 Jun 2026 · Official entry

  • Lloyds Banking Group PLC - £1,839.00

    £1,839 · Registered 26 May 2026 · Official entry

  • The Conservative Party Foundation - £600.00

    £600 · Registered 26 May 2026 · Official entry

  • Kensington, Bayswater, Chelsea & Fulham Conservatives - £340.00

    £340 · Registered 18 Dec 2025 · Official entry

Miscellaneous

  • Honorary Fellowship awarded by St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. This is an unpaid role.

    Registered 7 Nov 2025 · Official entry

Visits outside the UK

  • International visit to United States between 06 September 2025 and 10 September 2025

    Registered 30 Sept 2025 · Official entry

Shareholdings

  • Shares in Venture Marketing Group Ltd

    Registered Date not stated · Official entry

Source: UK Parliament Interests API (Registers + Interests CSV). As of 7 Sept 2026.

Electoral Commission donations (separate from RMFI)

PEF donations to regulated donees, fuzzy-matched on name to this sitting MP. Confidence is labelled. A low-confidence row is not a confirmed identity. This is not a copy of category 2 of the Commons register.

  • £5,000 · Non Cash from John Ruskin

    Accepted 21 Jun 2026 · match high (1) to “Mel Stride · NC0840209

  • £5,000 · Non Cash from Andrew Dawber

    Accepted 16 Jun 2026 · match high (1) to “Mel Stride · NC0840687

  • £10,000 · Non Cash from Paddy Nicoll

    Accepted 26 Apr 2026 · match high (1) to “Mel Stride · NC0838554

  • £4,000 · Non Cash from Graham Edwards

    Accepted 11 Sept 2025 · match high (1) to “Mel Stride · NC0833215

  • £11,000 · Visit from Graham Edwards

    Accepted 5 Sept 2025 · match high (1) to “Mel Stride · V0833216

  • £15,000 · Cash from Andrew Wilkinson

    Accepted 12 Sept 2024 · match high (1) to “Mel Stride · C0590872

  • £3,000 · Cash from Gareth Penny

    Accepted 19 Aug 2024 · match high (1) to “Mel Stride · C0588102

  • £25,000 · Cash from Andrew Wilkinson

    Accepted 11 Aug 2024 · match high (1) to “Mel Stride · C0588101

Search the Electoral Commission register directly

Source: Electoral Commission PEF donations register. As of 13 Sept 2026 · Regulated donees (et=rd), donee type 'MP - Member of Parliament', accepted on/after 2024-07-04. Newest 80 API pages..