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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 2026-08-23T16:53:48.768471040Z

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 £3,501,375 20 14
Nigel Farage Reform UK £1,287,149 64 15
Sir Geoffrey Cox Conservative £1,253,620 38 11
Charlie Maynard Liberal Democrat £1,066,648 34 13
Sir Jeremy Hunt Conservative £472,996 40 34
Angela Rayner Labour £457,764 27 18
David Davis Conservative £385,992 9 8
Mrs Kemi Badenoch Conservative £355,717 15 15
Andy Burnham Labour (Co-op) £354,548 26 20
Nick Timothy Conservative £349,744 19 16
Sir Oliver Dowden Conservative £319,769 34 11
Wes Streeting Labour £317,087 25 20
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 £5,863,206,164 1 1133 graph →
Ernst & Young LLP £16,500 £3,636,948,081 1 886 graph →
Vodafone £650 £1,756,290,499 1 467 graph →
Siemens Healthcare Ltd £24,000 £1,528,733,919 1 125 graph →
QinetiQ Group plc £380 £889,253,870 1 246 graph →
Community Integrated Care £323 £853,262,421 1 100 graph →
Mace Consult Limited £4,085 £823,898,163 1 64 graph →
Randox Laboratories Ltd £938 £646,051,452 1 31 graph →
Dentons UK and Middle East LLP £12,000 £409,134,294 1 102 graph →
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP £1,000 £322,562,007 1 35 graph →
Devon County Council £2,513 £303,494,798 2 21 graph →
University of Plymouth £1,788 £290,846,307 1 56 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 17 Lab 23 · Con 7 38 graph →
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION 21 Lab 30 · Con 2 37 graph →
META LIMITED 18 Lab 25 · Con 10 35 graph →
AIRBUS LIMITED 20 Lab 23 · Con 7 33 graph →
AMAZON LTD 20 Lab 22 · Con 7 33 graph →
NATIONAL GRID PLC 13 Lab 23 · Con 5 32 graph →
ASTRAZENECA PLC 15 Lab 26 · Con 5 32 graph →
OCTOPUS ENERGY LIMITED 16 Lab 14 · Con 4 28 graph →
SCOTTISH POWER LIMITED 11 Lab 20 · Con 2 28 graph →
CENTRICA PLC 12 Lab 22 · Con 2 28 graph →
ENERGY UK LIMITED 8 Lab 11 · Con 2 27 graph →
EDF LTD 10 Lab 19 · Con 4 27 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
Lord Vallance of Balham Lord ROYAL SOCIETY Any other relevant interests 4 “Fellow, Royal Society”
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 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
Sarah Jones Labour 614 0 0 5 619 501
Michael Shanks Labour 596 0 0 5 601 390
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
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 31 48 6 62 graph →
Silverstone Circuits Limited 23 0 1 35 graph →
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION 21 37 0 37 graph →
AIRBUS LIMITED 20 27 4 33 graph →
AMAZON LTD 20 31 2 33 graph →
META LIMITED 18 29 6 35 graph →
Google UK Ltd 18 1 0 20 graph →
HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 17 33 5 38 graph →
BBC LIMITED 17 17 1 31 graph →
ADS GROUP LIMITED 17 11 4 22 graph →
The Football Association Ltd 17 0 0 21 graph →
OCTOPUS ENERGY LIMITED 16 25 3 28 graph →
INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT 16 21 2 23 graph →
BRITISH RETAIL CONSORTIUM 16 16 3 19 graph →