Central Devon · Member 3935
Sir Mel Stride
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.
Phone
Addresses
Website and social
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.
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).
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 page27
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.
Source: UK Parliament Interests API (Registers + Interests CSV). As of 7 Sept 2026.
Electoral Commission donations
Matched rows below8
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.
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..