How much does YOUR MP earn from second jobs and gifts? Search tool reveals exactly how much they have declared - and who from...
The extraordinary amount of money MPs earn from second jobs and gifts can today be laid bare by the Daily Mail's eye-opening new search tool.
According to Parliament's latest Register of Members' Financial Interests, MPs have declared almost £5.5million from employment stretching back to 2022.
That sum is on top of their starting salaries of £93,904.
Ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak topped the earnings table at £1.29m, ahead of Nigel Farage – a regular GB News presenter and maker of personalised Cameo video messages – who pocketed £973,000.
It means the pair accounted for 41 per cent of the total tranche from second jobs.
MPs also declared £2.8m in freebies in the latest register. Among the gifts doled out tickets to watch Premier League football, Lady Gaga and Ed Sheeran.
Members also enjoyed £1.29m worth of accomodation, expenses and travel abroad, registered as 'visits outside the UK'.
Examples include Mr Farage's £5,000 seat at the Helping a Hero Gala Dinner in Texas and Sir John Whittingdale's £1,200 admission to Qatar Goodwood Festival 2025 and the accompanying Regency Ball.
Under the House of Commons' own rules, MPs must flag any payments received within 28 days of receipt.
Repeatedly failing to do so can, in extreme cases, lead to them being ousted as an MP, although late registers of interests are relatively common and do not typically progress through disciplinary processes.
Our analysis comes after Mr Farage this week apologised for breaching the rules 17 times.
Presenting on GB News and making Cameos were among the £384,000 payments the Reform leader failed to declare. He blamed the 'honest and genuine error' on the sheer number of well-paid second jobs he has.
Labour said that Mr Farage 'isn't on the side of working people – he's just lining his pockets when he should be standing up for his constituents'.
Yet Sir Keir Starmer himself was rebuked by Parliament's standards commissioner for breaching the same rules in 2022. Among the eight interests he failed to log on time were an £18,450 advance from publisher HarperCollins for a book he was writing and football tickets.
There has been renewed scrutiny of MPs' second jobs following the Owen Paterson lobbying scandal in late 2021.
At the height of the row, Sir Keir – then leader of the opposition – touted a total ban on MPs having second jobs with 'very limited exceptions'. He then softened his stance to focus on paid advisory and consultancy roles.
Labour politicians took home an extra £467,323 through second jobs, on top of their base salaries.
Those designated as Labour/Co-operative took just over £16,000.
Yuan Yang, member for Earley and Woodley, came out as Labour's top earner. The former Financial Times journalist, elected in the most recent election, accrued just shy of £75,000 in 2025 – the majority of which came through advances on a book launch.
The Conservatives, meanwhile, racked up £3.6m through second jobs, Lib Dems took £139,436.
Across just three members, Reform took just over £1m.
Rishi Sunak ranked as the top Tory with speaking engagements across a bevy of international conglomerates, including hedge funds Bain and Makena Capital.
At the end of last year, the former Prime Minister announced he had taken on advisory roles with tech monoliths Microsoft and Anthropic AI, both of which could net him hundreds of thousands of pounds per year.
Like second jobs, accepting gifts as a Westminster peer has long been a controversial topic.
Labour's first months in power were dominated by the 'freebies' row, when Sir Keir – nicknamed 'free gear Keir' – and other top ministers faced intense scrutiny over gifts they received.
In the wake of the scandal, the PM was forced to pay back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality, including Taylor Swift tickets.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves also vowed to no longer accept free tickets after she was criticised for taking a family member to see Sabrina Carpenter without paying.
Sir Keir, Ms Reeves and then-deputy PM Angela Rayner also pledged to no longer accept free clothing, after it was revealed donors were funding their wardrobes.
Tom Brake, chief executive of the political reform group, Unlock Democracy, told the Daily Mail: 'An MP's loyalty to their voters must never be in doubt.
'But when MPs take on multiple side gigs or accept lucrative freebies, even when it's within the rules, it raises all sorts of questions - of influence and special treatment - and erodes public trust.
'It's time to draw the line: no freebies above nominal value, and a cap on outside earnings of half an MP's salary.'
Charlie Maynard, Liberal Democrat MP for Witney, racked up just over £935,000 on pro bono legal fees, according to the latest register.
Every penny came in the form of waived legal fees for Mr Maynard to represent the government and the public in court against embattled utility provider, Thames Water over the later-approved investor bailout.
In a rare run of proceedings, Mr Maynard was given irregular permission to represent the interest of the public as investors battled for a government bailout for the firm's £17bn debt pile.
The firm, which provides water and waste management to 16m people, even unsuccessfully tried to get Mr Maynard to cover its legal fees of up to £1,400 per hour.
Mr Maynard, who was only elected in July 2024, was ordered to apologise to the house after failing to disclose the legal bill costs by the 28-day deadline in March last year.
They were noted by City of London law firm Marriott Harrison, barristers William Day and Rabin Kok, las well as legal scholar Riz Mokal.
More than £50,000 worth of freebies given to MPs were football hospitality tickets – including for Sir Keir and his beloved Arsenal.
At the tail end of last year, Parliament's sleaze watchdog suggested MPs should stop taking freebies in order to restore trust with voters.
Daniel Greenberg, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, urged politicians to 'constantly benchmark' their actions against how they will be viewed by the public.
After nearly three years in his role investigating sleaze rows, Mr Greenberg warned that voters' trust in MPs remains a 'serious problem'.
