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The Interest

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Six lenses onto the same underlying transparency data — MP register payments, the Companies House mirror, UK contract awards, Electoral Commission donations, ministerial transparency returns, and the List of Ministers' Interests. Every row links into the underlying profile, payer page or relationship graph.

Each table is computed directly from the published source data. Counts and totals are descriptive — no interpretation is implied.

Snapshot rebuilt hourly · last computed 2026-06-23T17:37:09.882337338Z

01

Top single-MP earners (all-time, register payments)

Total declared monetary entries in the Commons Register of Members' Financial Interests (or Lords equivalent) per individual. Excludes party-level donations, EC donations to the local accounting unit, and contract awards (those have their own lenses below). Sorted by total — the spread of payers matters too.

Member Party Total Entries Distinct payers
Rishi Sunak Conservative £2,540,544 15 10
Charlie Maynard Liberal Democrat £1,066,648 34 13
Sir Geoffrey Cox Conservative £1,047,770 33 9
Nigel Farage Reform UK £998,747 62 15
Sir Jeremy Hunt Conservative £454,496 37 32
Angela Rayner Labour £361,838 19 13
Nick Timothy Conservative £313,634 15 12
Sir Oliver Dowden Conservative £297,484 30 9
Mrs Kemi Badenoch Conservative £293,357 12 12
David Davis Conservative £290,992 4 4
Wes Streeting Labour £235,837 13 12
Robert Jenrick Reform UK £176,800 13 9
02

Tiny declared payment ↔ huge UK contract

Companies that declared some register payment to an MP and also won material UK government contracts. Sorted by contract size — the asymmetry between these two columns is the lead worth chasing. Cap-and-spread totals (a multi-supplier framework worth £100m with 5 suppliers contributes £20m here per supplier).

Payer Paid to MPs Contracts won MPs paid Awards
KPMG LLP £7,268 £4,136,986,200 1 1099 graph →
Vodafone £650 £1,355,643,843 1 461 graph →
Siemens Healthcare Ltd £24,000 £1,028,733,919 1 120 graph →
QinetiQ Group plc £380 £788,493,297 1 243 graph →
Mace Consult Limited £3,359 £703,000,331 1 58 graph →
Randox Laboratories Ltd £938 £545,998,389 1 29 graph →
University of Plymouth £1,788 £290,846,307 1 56 graph →
Jaguar Land Rover Limited £355 £231,173,579 1 391 graph →
Jaguar Land Rover £400 £231,173,579 1 391 graph →
Dentons UK and Middle East LLP £12,000 £214,037,544 1 100 graph →
Birmingham City Council £35,055 £205,824,083 1 12 graph →
Devon County Council £2,513 £203,494,798 2 20 graph →
03

Cross-party access hubs

Companies that have ministerial-meeting / hospitality / gift records with both Labour AND Conservative ministers. The "everyone meets us regardless of who's in office" roster — useful for spotting which interests have structural access vs. whoever happens to be in govt.

Firm Distinct ministers Tilt Total encounters
HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 16 Lab 21 · Con 7 36 graph →
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION 19 Lab 28 · Con 2 33 graph →
META LIMITED 17 Lab 20 · Con 10 30 graph →
ASTRAZENECA PLC 15 Lab 23 · Con 5 29 graph →
NATIONAL GRID PLC 11 Lab 20 · Con 5 29 graph →
AMAZON LTD 19 Lab 18 · Con 7 29 graph →
ENERGY UK LIMITED 8 Lab 11 · Con 2 27 graph →
AIRBUS LIMITED 18 Lab 16 · Con 7 26 graph →
OCTOPUS ENERGY LIMITED 16 Lab 12 · Con 4 26 graph →
SCOTTISH POWER LIMITED 11 Lab 17 · Con 2 25 graph →
CONFEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRY 15 Lab 20 · Con 2 24 graph →
CENTRICA PLC 11 Lab 17 · Con 2 23 graph →
04

Personal interest ↔ ministerial meeting overlap

Ministers who personally declared an interest in a firm under the quarterly List of Ministers' Interests AND have met that same firm in their ministerial role. The Code requires conflicts to be "managed", not avoided — these are starting points to ask how.

Minister Firm Interest category Met Disclosure
Emma Reynolds THECITYUK Any other relevant interests 3 “Managing Director, TheCityUK”
Georgia Gould LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION Any other relevant interests 3 “Deputy Chair, Local Government Association”
Lord Vallance of Balham Lord ROYAL SOCIETY Any other relevant interests 3 “Fellow, Royal Society”
Lord Vallance of Balham Lord TONY BLAIR INSTITUTE Any other relevant interests 1 “Strategic Counsellor, Tony Blair Institute”
05

Most-met ministers (by record count)

Total cache_minister_record entries per minister — meetings, gifts, hospitality and travel combined. A "bandwidth" view: who's spending the most disclosed time with external organisations. Departmental footprint (DSIT vs DEFRA) skews this — bigger portfolios attract more lobbying.

Minister Party Meetings Hosp. Gifts Travel Total Distinct
Nick Gibb Conservative 1172 13 5 15 1205 745
John Glen Conservative 1030 75 0 18 1123 520
Lord Johnson of Lainston Lord Conservative 933 45 5 25 1008 812
Michelle Donelan Conservative 877 22 2 13 914 442
Lord Gove Lord Conservative 816 29 1 12 858 391
Rishi Sunak Conservative 697 29 44 30 800 488
Helen Whately Conservative 639 7 1 2 649 428
Stephen Hammond Conservative 379 94 12 111 596 325
Stuart Andrew Conservative 504 53 0 15 572 443
Lord Bethell Lord Conservative 569 3 0 0 572 411
Lord Grayling Lord Conservative 507 44 0 14 565 347
Guy Opperman Conservative 518 24 1 11 554 440
06

Most-connected entities (across every surface)

Firms that touch the most distinct UK MPs / peers across every cross-link surface combined: register payer, shareholding-by-an-MP, and ministerial-meeting counterparty. The "most centrally embedded" entities in our graph.

Firm Distinct MPs/peers Mtgs (MPs) Mtgs (Lords) Total links
National Liberal Club 37 0 0 55 graph →
UNISON LIMITED 28 41 5 53 graph →
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION 19 33 0 33 graph →
AMAZON LTD 19 28 1 29 graph →
AIRBUS LIMITED 18 23 1 26 graph →
META LIMITED 17 24 6 30 graph →
The Football Association Ltd 17 0 0 21 graph →
Google UK Ltd 17 1 0 19 graph →
HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 16 31 5 36 graph →
OCTOPUS ENERGY LIMITED 16 24 2 26 graph →
BRITISH RETAIL CONSORTIUM 16 16 3 19 graph →
ASTRAZENECA PLC 15 18 11 29 graph →
BBC LIMITED 15 13 1 26 graph →
CONFEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRY 15 20 4 24 graph →
INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT 15 18 2 20 graph →