Which MPs have second jobs and how much do they earn?

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Which MPs have second jobs and how much do they earn?

By Daniel Kraemer
BBC News

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The second jobs of MPs are under scrutiny after former minister Owen Paterson was found to have broken lobbying rules.

International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said on Monday it would be "wise" to review the rules around second jobs.

Are MPs allowed second jobs?

Yes, as long as they are not a minister.

More than 200 MPs have received earnings in the last year on top of their £81,932 annual salary. The extra earnings range from £50 a year to almost £1m.

Those who leave government must consult the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments about any jobs they want to take up in the two years after leaving their post. They are banned from lobbying the government for two years.

All MPs are "strictly forbidden" from getting paid "in return for advocating a particular matter" in Parliament.

In 1995, the standards committee said that not having them would "not serve the best interests of democracy". It argued that Parliament needed "a wide range of current experience which can contribute to its expertise".

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Former minister Owen Paterson resigned as an MP to escape "the cruel world of politics"

The current debate is mainly regarding MPs who earn money as consultants or advisers. Less controversial second jobs range from doctors and nurses, to referees and musicians.

Which MPs have worked as consultants in the last year?

The following MPs have registered income from consultancy work on the Register of Members' Financial Interests in the last year. There is no suggestion that any of the MPs listed below have broken any rules.

• Andrew Mitchell (Conservative) holds six consultancy jobs, supporting investment banks and accountancy firms. He has registered more than £180,000 for 34.5 days' work
• Julian Smith (Conservative) is earning £144,000 for 62-84 hours' work for three companies, including advising on energy and renewable fuels
• Former transport and justice secretary Chris Grayling (Conservative) earns £100,000 to advise Hutchison Ports
• Mark Garnier (Conservative) is paid to sit on the advisory boards of two companies in the space and satellite industry, committing 20 hours a month for an annual payment of £90,000
• Sir Ed Davey (Lib Dem) works as a consultant for two firms alongside his job as leader of the Liberal Democrats. He says his extra £78,000 income goes towards supporting his disabled son
• Alun Cairns (Conservative), who left his post as Welsh Secretary in 2019, earns £60,000 advising three companies
• Ruth Edwards (Conservative), who has represented Rushcliffe since 2019, commits to 192 hours for £60,000 per year, advising a software company
• Stephen Hammond (Conservative) advises an investment company on political issues for £60,000 a year
• Since leaving his role as health minister in 2019, Steve Brine (Conservative) has joined three firms, including Sigma Pharmaceuticals. He earns almost £60,000 for 288 hours
• David Davis (Conservative) earns just over £50,000 as an adviser to two German companies
• John Hayes (Conservative) offers up to 90 hours of his time annually to international energy company BB Energy Trading, earning £50,000
• Former party leader and cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative) advises two health companies for £45,000
• Damian Green (Conservative) advises transport company Abellio on rail policy for 288 hours and £40,000 annually
• Tim Loughton (Conservative) receives £37,000 for advising a children's services provider
• Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative) provides "general advice" to an American mining firm, earning £36,000 a year
• Andrew Percy (Conservative) receives £36,000 a year for advising a Canadian clean energy company for six hours a month
• Khalid Mahmood (Labour) has committed up to 15 hours a month advising the Policy Exchange think tank on issues including extremism. He receives a salary of £25,000 a year
• Laurence Robertson (Conservative) advises the Betting and Gaming Council for £24,000 a year. He is expected to commit 10 hours a month
• Richard Fuller's (Conservative) outside earnings include £20,000 as an advisory director of an investment company
• Chair of the House of Commons justice committee Sir Bob Neill (Conservative) has been receiving almost £20,000 for two consultancy roles, including a law firm. One of the roles ended earlier this year
• Royston Smith (Conservative) has received £18,000 since May 2020 for 30 hours' work as a consultant for a property company
• Until earlier this year, Mark Pritchard (Conservative) was earning £18,000 a year for advice by the Consumer Credit Association
• Sir Greg Knight (Conservative) advises a bank for £16,000 a year on "general business and public relations"
• Until earlier this year, Ben Everitt (Conservative) committed 60 to 80 hours a year to advising the Institute of Chartered Accountants for £15,000
• Andrew Bridgen (Conservative) offers political advice for £12,000 a year, to a company which grows teak in Ghana
• Philip Davies (Conservative) earns £12,000 annually as a parliamentary adviser to the National Pawnbroking Association
• Sir Graham Brady (Conservative) earns £10,000 a year for 12 hours work as a strategic adviser
• Former universities minister Chris Skidmore (Conservative) provides advice on higher education for £10,000 a year
• Paul Maynard (Conservative) earns £6,250 a year as a consultant to a banking services company. He says his earnings go straight to charity
• John Redwood (Conservative) is an adviser for a private equity fund, for which he earns £5,000
• Until earlier this year, Andrew Lewer (Conservative) provided public policy advice to a property firm for £4,800 per year
• Dean Russell (Conservative) has received just over £2,000 in 2021 as a consultant for a business training company

What about other jobs?

Most of the MPs who have second jobs are not consultants.

Some of the highest earners in the House of Commons are lawyers.

Geoffrey Cox, who was attorney general during the height of the Brexit negotiations, has registered a total of £970,000 income in the last year, for 705 hours of legal services.

A number of MPs are also employed as doctors and nurses. Some have continued to work on the NHS front line during the pandemic.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/09/iain-duncan-smith-accused-of-brazen-conflict-of-interest-over-25000-job

Iain Duncan Smith accused of ‘brazen conflict of interest’ over £25,000 job

Ex-Tory leader chaired government taskforce that recommended new rules benefiting firm he was employed by

 

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Tue 9 Nov 2021 19.56 GMT

 

Iain Duncan Smith is facing questions over his £25,000-a-year second job advising a multimillion-pound hand sanitiser company after he chaired a government taskforce that recommended new rules benefiting the firm.

The MP and former Conservative party leader chaired the Task Force on Innovation, Growth, and Regulatory Reform, which reported back in May after he and two other MPs were asked by Boris Johnson to recommend ways of cutting supposed EU red-tape.

However, the fresh spotlight on moonlighting by MPs has now prompted questions about the taskforce’s recommendations that alcohol-free hand sanitisers should be formally recognised as suitable for use in the UK.

The report made no reference to Duncan Smith’s relationship with Byotrol, which provides the NHS with 92% of its non-alcohol sanitiser. It retains the former Tory leader as an adviser for £25,000 a year, according to his declaration in parliament’s register of members’ interests.

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21 hours ago, Premi5 said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10181447/Disgraced-MP-Claudia-Webbe-wait-four-months-challenge-harassment-conviction.html

 

Acid threat MP Claudia Webbe will keep her job and £81K salary for up to the next SIX MONTHS as court rules her appeal against harassment conviction will be heard in March

• Claudia Webbe, 56, called Michelle Merritt a 'slag' and throw acid over her
• She was convicted of harassment after a trial at Westminster Magistrates' Court
• Webbe had denied the offence and she has now lodged an appeal against it
• She will have to wait until March for her three-day appeal hearing in Southwark 

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PUBLISHED: 11:11, 9 November 2021 | UPDATED: 14:16, 9 November 2021

 

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A serving Labour MP who threatened to throw acid over her love rival will continue to collect her £81,000 salary while she attempts to overturn her conviction and sentence for harassment in March.

Claudia Webbe, 56, called Michelle Merritt a 'slag' and said she would send naked photos of her to her family, a court heard.

Webbe, who was expelled from Labour when she was convicted after a trial at Westminster Magistrates' Court, was sentenced to 10 weeks jail, suspended the term for two years with 200 hours of unpaid work.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10176109/ANDREW-PIERCE-Disgraced-MP-Claudia-Webbe-faces-trouble-closer-home.html

Webbe bombarded a friend of her partner with abusive phone calls, threatened to attack her with acid and to send naked pictures of her to family and friends, while ludicrously later insisting she was the victim because she was ‘a black woman in a white court’.

She's one of the local MP's here in Leicester, completely and utterly useless, which is a huge feat in itself considering she replaced Keith Vaz. The local Gujrati community absolutely hate her, they tried their best to get her out when it was announced she was to replace Vaz, they wanted one of their own in again, it's completely bonkers that she's been allowed to stay in, Labour have booted her out and most of the local community want her out as well.

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30 minutes ago, kcmidlands said:

She's one of the local MP's here in Leicester, completely and utterly useless, which is a huge feat in itself considering she replaced Keith Vaz. The local Gujrati community absolutely hate her, they tried their best to get her out when it was announced she was to replace Vaz, they wanted one of their own in again, it's completely bonkers that she's been allowed to stay in, Labour have booted her out and most of the local community want her out as well.

Worse than Vaz...but at least from Leicester.

Is there anyone in Leicester that would make a good MP, do you think ?

 

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19 hours ago, Premi5 said:

Worse than Vaz...but at least from Leicester.

Is there anyone in Leicester that would make a good MP, do you think ?

 

They're all the same, it's just different sides of the same coin, as shady as Vaz was he was instrumental in the opening of the Sikh ethos primary school here in Leicester, the original academy was going to get taken over over by another one who were looking to open up a school under their banner instead, the DFE got involved and al sorts (long story, maybe for another thread), bur overall they are looking after themselves first and pretending it's for the community, the ones that are decent don't get far, there are a few good local councillors here that get stuff done but they tend to bypass all the red tape to do it, I used to think Ashworth was decent but he's like the rest of them as well.

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35 minutes ago, kcmidlands said:

I used to think Ashworth was decent but he's like the rest of them as well.

How so?

Liz Kendall seems principled, but I might be wrong. 

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1 hour ago, Premi5 said:

How so?

Liz Kendall seems principled, but I might be wrong. 

Liz Kendall's one of the better one's, Ashworth seems to be away from his office most of the time when constituents want to see him but he'll turn up at event's (Nagar Kirtans included) for the photo op, i think I'm just jaded and have had enough of most MP's, the events of the last week or so and yet more majority Tory sleaze to come out just doesn't surprise me anymore, it's the fact that they are able to get away with it with very little re-course, if a member of the public behaved that way they'd be in jail.

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33 minutes ago, kcmidlands said:

 if a member of the public behaved that way they'd be in jail.

Definitely

I think a lot of the Tory (and lesser extent the other parties) go into Politics primarily to further their own financial position and to increase their and their friends' influence. 

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39 minutes ago, kcmidlands said:

Liz Kendall's one of the better one's, Ashworth seems to be away from his office most of the time when constituents want to see him but he'll turn up at event's (Nagar Kirtans included) for the photo op, i think I'm just jaded and have had enough of most MP's, the events of the last week or so and yet more majority Tory sleaze to come out just doesn't surprise me anymore, it's the fact that they are able to get away with it with very little re-course, if a member of the public behaved that way they'd be in jail.

Yes, a lot of them don't live in the same world as >99% of us do

 

They get their £82K/year, plus up to that much or more in 'expenses'/second homes, and they are free to employ family members to work for them and they are allowed other incomes. 

@GurjantGnostic, what's it like in the States with your Representatives ?

 

https://inews.co.uk/news/peter-bottomley-doubles-down-on-saying-mps-salary-of-82000-is-really-grim-despite-widespread-backlash-1237698#:~:text=The £81%2C932-per,live in poverty.”

Sir Peter Bottomley has defended comments in which he said that living on an MP’s salary of £82,000 was “really grim” following a backlash from charities, opposition politicians and social media users.

The Conservative MP and Father of the House came under fire for saying that the financial situation for new MPs was “desperately difficult”.

“I don’t know how they manage. It’s really grim,” he told the New Statesman.

The £81,932-per-year salary for MPs does not include expenses. The average salary in England is just over £31,000.

Sir Peter, 77, also called for MPs to be paid the same as GPs, who earn an average of £100,000 each year.

His comments came on the same day the cut to universal credit hit millions across the UK, leaving claimants £1,000 worse off each year.

The MP told i that his comments had been “misinterpreted” and added: “I’m in a position where I can say what others ought to be saying, which is that someone who has been reasonably successful in their working life, whether as deputy head of a large school, or a GP, should be able to switch to Parliament without a dramatic change to their income.”

 

He also said he had repeatedly worked to make the House of Commons more accessible to those who have families, with “a high mortgage, who has children which take up time and money”.

Sir Peter said he thought the universal credit uplift cut should be gradual and not pulled in full overnight – and said that the fact the New Statesman article had been published as the cut came into force was “just a fact of life”.

Charities have warned that dropping the universal credit uplift will cause “immense, immediate and avoidable hardship” and plunge thousands more into poverty, while Tory MPs have said the cut is “inconsistent” with the Government’s levelling up agenda.

Laurence Guinness, chief executive of The Childhood Trust which works to alleviate child poverty in London, suggested Sir Peter should instead be focusing on “working out how to improve incomes for those vulnerable and disadvantaged families affected by the recent benefit cuts and price rises”.

According to Mr Guinness, after accounting for housing costs the average income for a couple with two children living in poverty in the capital is just £248 a week.

“The £100,000 salary proposed by Mr Bottomley equates to a net take-home salary of £5,557 per month or £256 per day, meaning that under his proposals MP’s would receive more in one day than a typical London family with two children in poverty earn in one week – over five times the income,” he told i.

“I would ask Mr Bottomley to try and live on £248 a week whilst raising two children and see just how difficult and soul destroying life is when you live in poverty.”

 

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59275207

 

MPs Layla Moran and Crispin Blunt admit using offices for paid meeting

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35 minutes ago

Two MPs have admitted using their Commons offices for non-parliamentary paid meetings.

Liberal Democrat Layla Moran and Conservative Crispin Blunt appeared via video link on a panel discussing political prisoners in Saudi Arabia.

The event last November was organised by law firm Bindmans LLP.

According to the register of financial interests for MPs, Ms Moran was paid £3,000 by the firm and Mr Blunt received £6,000.

Bindmans described the meeting as an "evidence session", which heard from human rights organisations and family members of detained Saudi Arabian activists.

Under House of Commons rules, MPs must not use the parliamentary facilities for non-parliamentary work.

Ms Moran, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, has apologised and said she "deeply regretted" it.

In a statement, Ms Moran said: "With MPs from other parties, I worked on the detention of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia with Bindmans.

"I deeply regret that I 'zoomed' in for one meeting from my office in Parliament when Covid restrictions were in place.

"I take full responsibility for this and it will not happen again."