MPs reveal income and perks
Shropshire and Mid Wales MPs have recorded income, gifts and perks from outside jobs and trips abroad in the latest Commons register of outside interests.
Perks varied from the free use of a motor caravan for the weekend to a couple of airline upgrades, and outside income was largely drawn from land and property holdings.
Telford Labour MP David Wright declared no income, gifts or visits abroad at all on the register. All MPs have to keep their details in the register updated.
Income from outside has to be registered in bands of £5,000, and MPs are also required to declare financial support or donations of more than £1,000; plane trips or upgrades worth £600 or more; income from property of more than £6,000 a year; and shareholdings of more than 15 per cent of issued share capital or shares worth more than £60,000.
What your MP earned in addition to his parliamentary salary:
Philip Dunne (Con, Ludlow): Non-executive director of VCT-4-PLC, venture capital trust; partner in Gatley Farms; none-executive director of Ruffer LLP, investment managers; rental income from estate in Herefordshire held in trust for life; estate in Surrey; shares in Baronsmead VCT-4-PLC; member of South Shropshire District Council (payment waived from May 2005); family trust pays children's school fees.
Daniel Kawczynski (Con, Shrewsbury & Atcham): Funding from the Midlands Industrial Council for mailed survey of constituents.
Lembit Opik (Lib Dem, Montgomeryshire): Director of West European Air Services Ltd, aircraft management services and brokerage for local air charter company; parliamentary advisor to the Caravan Club of Great Britain (£5,001-£10,000); parliamentary advisor to the Chartered Institute of Marketing (£5,001-£10,000); use of motorhome for weekend of July 28, 2006, at the expense of the Caravan Club in order to attend a Country Landowners' Association game fair; shares in West European Air Services.
Owen Paterson (Con, North Shropshire): Research assistance as shadow transport minister, funded by Castle Rising Holdings Ltd; September 20, 2005, flight from Lansing, Michigan, to Alpena, Michigan, to study bovine TB, and one night's stay in Lansing paid for by the State of Michigan Department of Agriculture; rent from buildings and agricultural land at Bunbury and Spurstow, Cheshire; rent from buildings attached to house near Ellesmere.
Mark Pritchard (Con, The Wrekin): British Airways upgrade on private trip (with wife) to Washington in July 2006 and to premier economy on return journey.
Bill Wiggin (Con, Leominster): Parliamentary advisor to the Green Lane Association Ltd, national user group (up to £5,000).
Roger Williams (Lib Dem, Brecon and Radnorshire): Partner in R.H. Williams, farming partnership; overseas visit February 21-22, 2006, to Bologna to visit the Ramazzini Foundation for Oncology, paid for by Granada TV; farmland at Tredomen Court, Wales; rent from three houses at Tredomen, Brecon; rent from house in Exmouth, Devon.
David Wright (Lab, Telford): Nil.
