Alex Mayer MP: votes, interests and costs
Alex Mayer represents Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard in the House of Commons for Labour.
Offices and committees
Alex Mayer sits on 2 committees, according to the Parliament Members API.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Sporting Events Bill | 15 October 2026 | Current |
| Transport Committee | 28 October 2024 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Finance (No. 2) Bill | 15 January 2026 | 3 February 2026 |
| Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL] | 24 June 2025 | 3 July 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 ebfc10697c05.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Alex Mayer, as the MP registered them: Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK (1), Miscellaneous (1), Land and property (within or outside the UK) (1). Latest registration 1 June 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Duolingo - £5,000.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: I took part in the Duolingo Westminster Language Challenge. Winners were asked to nominate constituency organisations to receive payment direct from Duolingo. I chose Girlguiding Houghton Regis and Church Riverside Scouts to share the donation (£2,500 each)
- Value of the benefit: £5,000.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-05-11
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-05-11
- Name of the donor: Duolingo
- Status of the donor: Company
Unpaid Director, Restitute CIC.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Property in Ipswich, Cambridge and Somerset
- Location of the land or property: Ipswich, Cambridge and Somerset
- The number of properties this interest relates to: 3
- Country in which the land or property is located: United Kingdom
- The type of property: Residential
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
IPSA, the body that sets and pays MPs' business costs, records staffing spending of £152,429 for Alex Mayer in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. IPSA lists office spending of £24,191 in the same year. Budgets for that year run from the MP's election on 4 July 2024, as IPSA's reason column states. IPSA publishes each budget, the amount spent and the amount left (the remaining amounts are in IPSA's files); no total across budgets is published, so none is given here.
| IPSA figure | 2024-25 |
|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £152,429.18 |
| Office costs: spent | £24,191.31 |
| Accommodation: spent | £19,348.13 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £2,581.62 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £21,667 (Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024, and a start-up supplement of £6,000; Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024; Standard budget for renting a property in the London area from 5 July 2024).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Casework Team Leader/Manager (permanent full time), Senior Researcher (permanent full time), Constituency Assistant ×2 (permanent part time), Caseworker (term time part time), Senior Communication Officer ×2 (fixed term part time), Intern ×2 (fixed term part time), Policy Assistant (fixed term full time), Senior Policy Researcher ×2 (fixed term full time), Policy Assistant (fixed term part time), Support Officer (fixed term full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Alex Mayer is recorded voting in 593 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 59 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The 30 most recent on bills and motions are listed here. On 21 October 2026 Alex Mayer voted No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 28 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Alex Mayer has tabled 775 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. The latest 10 were addressed to Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Home Office and 3 other departments.
Transplant Surgery: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were on the transplant waiting list in (a) Bedfordshire (b) Cambridgeshire and (c) Hertfordshire in (i) 2023/24, (ii) 2024/25 and (iii) 2025/26.
Journalism and Local Press: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps her Department has taken to support the long-term financial sustainability of local newspapers and local journalism.
Domestic Abuse: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disclosures have been made under the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme in (a) Bedfordshire, (b) Cambridgeshire and (c) Hertfordshire in each of the last three years.
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children and young people accessed NHS mental health support in the area covered by Central East ICB in each of the last three years.
Autism: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) children and young people and (b) adults received an autism assessment in the area covered by Central East ICB in the latest 12 months for which data is available.
Speech and Language Therapy: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children and young people received speech and language therapy in the area covered by Central East ICB in each of the last three year.
Reading
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department plans to measure the success of the National Year of Reading.
Bus Service Operators Grant: Diesel
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason coach operators are not included in the one-off uplift to the Bus Service Operators Grant diesel reimbursement rate.
Transport: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish a definition of Critical National Growth Infrastructure.
Boiler Upgrade Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress she has made on the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 d45d7785846f. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Alex Mayer.
2024 general election
Alex Mayer won Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 14,976 votes (32.5%), a majority of 667 over Andrew Selous (Conservative). Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard figures
Built 15 October 2026 from official records; register entries and votes are re-read on a rolling schedule. This page sets out what the record shows and gives no rating of the MP. Official UK Parliament page · All MPs · Something wrong? Tell us.