MPs PAY FROM SECOND JOBS

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These are some of the MPs in the House of Commons who earn money from second jobs.

Paul Keetch
Earns £48,000 a year for around 36 days work, offering insurance broking advice to London Market Insurance Brokers Ltd and business advice to MilSys, a firm which supplies military-style tents. Fee, which works out at £1,300 a day, is paid direct to his company, Raynard Research, from which he receives £12,000 a year including an annual director's fee and a dividend.

Paddy Tipping
Paid £18,000 a year for working two hours a week as non-executive chairman of the North Nottinghamshire LIFT Company and the Greater Nottingham LIFT Company, public-private partnerships involved in developing GP surgeries and other primary care estate in the region.

Mark Field
Receives £29,500 a year for around four hours of work a week as a member of the advisory committee of the London School of Commerce.

Bill Cash
Earned £18,750 for 98 hours of legal work last year, a rate of more than £190 an hour.

Desmond Swayne
Receives £12,000 for an estimated 128 hours a year for his work for the Lewis Charles Sofia Property Fund, involved in property development in Bulgaria. This works out at £94 an hour. As a Major in the Territorial Army, he also receives around £5,000 a year for 20 days of service.

Tim Loughton
Shadow minister for children and young people, contracted to work two days a month chairing board meetings for Classwatch, a firm which installs CCTV cameras and microphones in classrooms to watch and listen to pupils in a bid to identify disruptive pupils. The MP has declared a salary of £30,000 with the Commons authorities but has not yet taken it because the company is still at development stage.

George Galloway
Receives £500 a week for a weekly column in the Daily Record, which he says he writes on Sunday mornings; £1,800 for two weekly radio shows on TalkSport; and £2,500 for two weekly programmes on Press TV, an English-language news channel funded by the Iranian government. Over a year this works out at £249,600.

Michael Gove
Earns £60,000 a year from The Times newspaper. He submits one article a week which he says takes him an hour, sometimes more, sometimes less. Most weeks he also writes for Scotland on Sunday, for £250 per article, which he says takes him a similar length of time. Occasional articles for Building magazine pay £400 each and also take about an hour. Appearances on BBC Newsnight Review earn him £675 per programme.

Richard Shepherd
Lists directorship of family firm Shepherd Food Holdings Ltd in the Register of Member's Interests. "I don't have the exact figure, I would have to check with my accountant. I think it is about £55,000," he said. The hours a week are "not many", he added, "My brother runs the company. It is my business that I started 40 years ago and built up. It gives me a proper understanding of the issues faced by businesses in the West Midlands. For too long, Parliament has represented a narrow range of interests."

Patricia Hewitt
Former health secretary earned up to £50,000 last year as a special consultant to Alliance Boots, up to £60,000 as a senior adviser to equity investment firm Cinven, £150 for a speech and was a non-executive director of BT, according to her entry in the Register of Interests. According to BT's annual report and accouts she earns £75,000 for her work with them. Known total: up to £185,150

Alan Milburn
Former health secretary earned up to £30,000 last year as an adviser to Lloydspharmacy's Healthcare Advisory Panel, up to £35,000 as an adviser to equity investment firm Bridgepoint Capital, up to £25,000 as an adviser to PepsiCo UK, up to £25,000 from writing articles for national newspapers and an unknown sum as a non-executive director of AM Strategy Ltd, according to his declaration in the Register of Interests. Known total: up to £115,000

David Blunkett
Former home secetary earned up to £50,000 last year as an adviser to online logistics firm UC Group, up to £30,000 as an adviser to employment firm A4E Ltd, up to £25,000 from First Group as chair of Commission on School Transport, up to £60,000 fron newspaper articles including a 12-column Sun contract worth up to £50,000, up to £25,000 for speeches and an unknown sum as a non-executive director of Tribune Business Systems according to his declaration in the Register of Interests. Total: up to £190,000

William Hague
Shadow foreign secretary earned up to £50,000 as an adviser to the JCB Group, up to £20,000 as an adviser to Terra Firma Capital Partners and up to £145,000 for speeches last year, as well as an unknown sum as a director of AES Engineering in Rotherham, according to his latest entry in the Register of Members' Interests. He has pledged to free himself of his second jobs by the autumn.

Lembit Opik
Earns up to £10,000 as parliamentary adviser to the Caravan Club of Great Britain, up to £5,000 for "training for the National School of Government", and up to £20,000 in media work including up to £5,000 from the Daily Sport, according to his declaration in the Register of Interests.

(Source: Daily Telegraph, Jun/09)

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