Football tickets, Glastonbury hospitality and Wimbledon admission among the freebies received by West Midland MPs

The latest register also provides details of outside earnings and property rentals by parliamentarians. 

West Bromwich MP Sarah Coombes received two hospitality tickets to attend the Brit awards in March, valued at £3,120, which were donated by the British Recorded Music Industry: She also received two centre-court and two ground passes to Wimbledon, valued at  £460, donated by the Lawn Tennis Association, in July.

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Stafford MP Leigh Ingham attended the Glastonbury Festival as a guest of Google subsidiary YouTube, receiving hospitality valued at £2,908.

Wolverhampton MPs Sureena Brackenridge and Warinder Juss both received hospitality tickets worth £600-£700 at Molineux as part of Wolves' Inside Matters event on mental health. Mr Juss also received tickets worth £700 for Wolves' game against Aston Villa for an event also attended by West Midland mayor Richard Parker, Wolverhampton Council leader Councillor Stephen Simkins, and another MP. The Wolves Foundation also donated two tickets as a raffle prize for a Labour Party fundraising event, and provided accommodation and a compere for Wolverhampton and Black Country South Asian Heritage Month. 

Walsall & Bloxwich MP Valerie Vaz received hospitality tickets for herself and two others, valued at £1,050, to watch Walsall play in the League 2 play-off final at Wembley.  

Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard received more than £2,000 a month over a two-year period ending in May last year from US-based Strategeast, and since October he has been paid £9,000 a month for 10 hours' work by the ATS group in Macedonia.

Sir Gavin Williamson, MP for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge, declared earnings of £60,000 a year from education provider RTC, for 80 hours work per annum. He also enjoys free honorary membership of the Carlton Club in London.

Smethwick MP Gurinder Singh Josan continues to be one of the biggest property landlords at Westminster, co-owning a total of eight rental properties across Birmigham and Sandwell -five residential and three commercial - with family members. 

Wolverhampton West MP Mr Juss also declared a rental property yielding more than £10,000 a year, as did Miss Coombes. North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan declared rental properties in Buckinghamshire and Cumbria, owned jointly by her husband, which both yielded a rental income of more than £10,000 a year, while Aldridge-Brownhills MP Wendy Morton disclosed three small industrial units owned by the business DM Electronics, which she co-owns with her husband David Morton.  

Mrs Morgan also declared a number of private donations totalling £26,500 to North Shropshire Liberal Democrats, while Dudley MP Sonia Kumar registered donations totalling £5,125 from business campaign group SME4Labour 

Telford MP Shaun Davies declared an income of £710 a month up until December last year for his role as a non-executive director of Wrekin Housing Group.

Stuart Anderson(South Shropshire)

Miscellaneous:  Unpaid member of Wolverhampton Town Board until May 30, 2025

Ballinger, Alex (Halesowen)

Miscellaneous: Unpaid trustee of The Birmingham Settlement. 

Bance, Antonia (Tipton and Wednesbury) 

Employment and earnings: Head of campaigns, communications and dIgital, the TUC, until July 5, 2024. Received one-off payment of back pay totalling £1,500.67 on February 14, 2025. 

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources: GMB paid £900 for two night's room and breakfast at Labour party conference in Liverpool.

Miscellaneous: Director of Hope not Hate Ltd, an unpaid role, until August 20, 2025.

Brackenridge, Mrs Sureena (Wolverhampton North East)

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources: Two tickets for Premier League event, 'Inside Matters' Mental Health initiative, including football match and hospitality, value £700, donated by Premier League, on May 17, 2025.

Miscellaneous: Previously a deputy headteacher working for Central Learning Partnership, up until July 7, 2024.

Buckley, Julia (Shrewsbury) 

Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000: one-bed flat in Hamburg, Germany, co-owned with two step-family members.

Miscellaneous: Non-executive director of Shropshire Towns and Rural (Star) housing association, until August 1, 2024. This is an unpaid role. Unpaid councillor on Shropshire Council, until May 1, 2025. Unpaid role as councillor on Bridgnorth Town Council until January 1, 2025.  

Coombes, Sarah (West Bromwich)

Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation: £10,000 donation from Daniel Luhde-Thompson for constituency campaigning 

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources: Two tickets with hospitality to attend the Brit awards, valued at £3,120, donated by the British Recorded Music Industry, on March 1, 2025: Two centre court and two ground passes to Wimbledon, valued at  £460, donated by the Lawn Tennis Association on July 7, 2025. 

Visits outside the UK: Coalition for Global Prosperity (CGP) paid £937.30 for flights, £649.90)for accommodation , and £270.23)for food and refreshments during overseas visit to Jordan from July 20 to 25, total value £1,857.43. Purpose of visit was to see UK Development programmes i n action and meet with development experts and partners. 

Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000: Flat in London with rental income of more than £10,000 a year.

Davies, Shaun (Telford)

Employment and earnings: Non-executive director of Wrekin Housing Group until December 18, 2024, receiving £710 a month for 15 hours work.

Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000: Two-bedroom house in Telford, registered from July 4, 2024, co-owned with wife.

Miscellaneous non-executive director of Wrekin Housing Group until December 13, 2024  Councillor at Telford and Wrekin Council, unpaid since 30 August 2024 and previously registered under Category 1. Non-practising and unpaid solicitor. Honorary vice-president of the Local Government Association, an unpaid role.  Member of the Telford Town Deal board (unpaid). Vice-president of West Midlands Labour Finance and Industry Group, unpaid. Member of the Nexus Advisory Board, unpaid, at The King's Fund. Honorary vice-president of the National Association of Local Councils, unpaid.

Eccles, Cat (Stourbridge)

Employment and earnings: Councillor, Dudley Metropolitan Borough, requested to relinquish allowances on July 15, 2024. 

Visits outside the UK: Labour Friends of Israel paid for flights, accommodation and meals, value £2,600 tor trip to Israel and Palestine, May 25-29, 2025 as part of delegation, attending meetings with politicians, academics, activists and diplomats.

Trustee of Wollaston Village Hall, unpaid.

Ingham, Leigh (Stafford) 

Donation from Google UK for hospitality as a guest of YouTube at Glastonbury Festival 2025, value £2,908.02, received June 27, 2025.

Visits outside the UK: United Nations Population Fund, via the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Sexual and Reproductive Health, flights and visa to Kenya, £1,789.41, accommodation £486.41, other travel £220.08, food and drink £371.13, and miscellaneous £127.14, total value, £2,994.17 for visit from April 8-12, 2025. Purpose of visit: Study tour on sexual and reproductive health and rights and international development.

Miscellaneous: Governor of Burton Manor School, Stafford (unpaid). 

Josan, Gurinder Singh (Smethwick) 

Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000: Five residential properties in Sandwell, co-owned with family members, yielding an income of more than £10,000 a year.: Three commercial properties in Sandwell, co-owned with family members,.yielding rental income in excess of £10,000 a year.

Miscellaneous: Chairman of trustees at Victoria Academies Trust, unpaid. Governor at Holly Lodge High School College of Science in Smethwick, unpaid. Director of Josan Estates Ltd, unpaid. Director of Sikhs for Labour and vice-chairman of Sikhs for Labour, a Labour Party Friends group. This is an unpaid role. Chairman of trustees at Hope Not Hate charitable trust, unpaid. Director of Labour First, unpaid. Parliamentary Labour Party representative on the Labour Party national executive committee , serving as chairman of the NEC complaints and disciplinary sub-committee and a member of the officer group. This is an unpaid role. 

Juss, Warinder (Wolverhampton West) 

Employment and earning: Solicitor at Thompsons Solicitors LLP until July 5, 2025.

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources: Premier League donated two  hospitality tickets to attend the Wolves v Brighton match at Molineux, May 10, 2025 as part of the Premier League's Inside Matters campaign on mental health, value £600. This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on October 6, 2025. Two hospitality tickets to attend the Wolves v Aston Villa match on February 1, 2025 as part of the Premier League's More Than a Game initiative, where there was also a presentation of the award for the winner of the Premier League Community Captain award, in the presence of the West Midlands, mayor, council leader and another MP, value £700. This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on October 6, 2025. Wolverhampton Wanderers (Wolves) Foundation donated two match tickets for the Wolverhampton Wanderers v Everton game on August 30, 2025 as a raffle prize for the Wolverhampton Labour Party summer social event, value £120. Wolverhampton Wanderers (Wolves) Foundation sponsored Wolverhampton and Black Country South Asian Heritage Month panel event, providing room and covering fee for compere, totalling £885 on August 14.  

Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000: Flat and house in Wolverhampton, providing rental income of more than £10,000 a year

Miscellaneous Member of the central executive council of the GMB trade union. Trade union representative on Labour Party's national policy forum  Non-practising solicitor.

Kumar, Sonia (Dudley)

Employment and earnings: Physiotherapist, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Russells Hall Hospital.

Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation: SME4Labour, £5,000

Any other support: SME4Labour, £1,625, received May 6, 2025: SME4Labour, £2,000, May 20, 2025; SME4Labour, £1,500, May 20, 2025.

Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000: House in Birmingham.

McFadden, Pat (Wolverhampton South East)

Miscellaneous: Unpaid member of Wolverhampton Towns Fund board.

Morgan, Helen (North Shropshire) 

Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation: David Evans, £4,000 (registered December 16. 2024.  James Moore,: £10,000 to support the activities of North Shropshire Liberal Democrats (registered February 24, 2025)  Mark Petterson, £5,000 to assist with North Shropshire Liberal Democrats local election campaign (registered March 31, 2025). Stephen de Launey, £1,000 to support North Shropshire Liberal Democrats local election campaign, registered May 12, 2025); Stephen de Launey, £1,000 to support North Shropshire Liberal Democrats local election campaign, registered May 12, 2025. Stephen de Launey, donation of £500 to support North Shropshire Liberal Democrats local election campaign, registered May 12, 2025. Mark Petterson, £5,000 to support North Shropshire Liberal Democrats with their local election campaign, registered June 2, 2025)

Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000: House in Cumbria, owned jointly with husband, yielding rental income of more than £10,000 a year. House in Buckinghamshire, owned jointly with husband, yielding rental income of more than £10,000.

Miscellaneous A Vice President of the Local Government Association. This is an unpaid role. Date interest arose: 8 February 2023 (Registered 24 February 2023)

Morton, Wendy (Aldridge-Brownhills) 

Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation: Kelliher Insurance Group, £5,000, registered June 24, 2025.

Visits outside the UK: Government of Gibraltar covered return flights, £375, two nights' accommodation, £346), meals and hospitality, £200, total value £921to attend parliamentary delegation, registered June 3, 2025. House of Representatives of Cyprus, provided three nights' accommodation, £475.67, transport, £330.68, meals £84.79, total value £891.14, for visit May 26-29, for meetings with the president of the republic, president of the National Assembly, foreign minister ,members of the House of Representatives, and the mayors of Morphou and Famagusta .Accommodation and hospitality provided by the House of Representatives and others to the value of £891.14 (Registered 11 June 2025) 

Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000: Two small industrial units on a business park in North Yorkshire, owned by DM Electronics Ltd. 

Shareholdings over 15 per cent of issued share capital: DM Electronics Ltd, an electronics design and manufacturing company.

Miscellaneous Vice-president of the Lotteries Council, unpaid. Advisory board member to the Centre for Commonwealth Affairs, unpaid, until November 22, 2024. Advisory board member to the Friends of the British Overseas Territories, unpaid. Member of the British-American Parliamentary Group Chairman of the United & Cecil Club, unpaid. Life Membership of the Friends of the British Overseas Territory. Political governor of the board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. 

Newbury, Josh (Cannock Chase) 

Miscellaneous Co-opted governor at Jerome Primary School, Norton Canes, unpaid, until December 20, 2024. Councillor on Cannock Chase Council until March 12, 2025, unpaid as of July 5, 2024, due to fully renouncing all members' allowances. Trustee of Norton Canes Community Association, unpaid.

Pritchard, Mark (The Wrekin) 

Employment and earnings  Director, MAP Advisory Ltd. Strategic marketing counsel for Strategeast, Washington DC, a non-profit organisation which promotes the rule of law in Eurasian countries through the digital economy and a client of MAP Advisory Ltd, paying £2,083.33 a month for 10 hours work a month from April 2, 2022 until May 3, 2024. Providing marketing advice to Redway AG, an engineering and technical services company and a client of MAP Advisory Ltd, based in  Switzerland. Lead marketing counsel and vice chairman of the advisory board.  Linden Energy Holdings, Inc (an energy development company and a client of MAP Advisory Ltd), Houston, Texas, providing marketing advisory services from November 1, 2023, until October 24, 2024. ATS Group, an industrial manufacturing and technology business based in Skopje, North Macedonia, paying £9,000 a month for 10 hours work per month from October 24, 2024.

Visits outside the UK: HM Government of Gibraltar, flights (£585), accommodation (£600) and hospitality (£250), total value £1,435, for visit from September 8, 2024, to September 11, 2024, to meet with Gibraltar's chief minister, commandant Gibraltar and governor of Gibraltar and other ministers to discuss bilateral defence issues and Gibraltar's post-Brexit relationship with the UK and other strategic partners. The Prague Society for International Cooperation, flights £661, accommodation £300 and hospitality £250, value £1,211, for visit to Bratislava from November 18- 21, 2024. Purpose of visit was to speak and chair meetings of Russian political dissidents in Bratislava, in the capacity of vice-president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. Qatar International Academy for Security Studies, flights (£4,000), hotel accommodation and food (£2,000), value £6,000, to attend and speak at a Global Security Forum, April 27-30, 2025. Black Sea Security Forum, Odesa, Ukraine, accommodation (£198) and transfers (£307), value £505, visit to Odesa, Ukraine, May 29-June 1, 2025, to attend and speak at a forum on security, economic and political matters in the Black Sea region, including Ukraine. 

Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000: Flat in London, yielding income of more than £10,000 a year. Shareholdings, more than 15 per cent of issued share capital,  MAP Advisory Ltd.  

Robertson, Dave (Lichfield)

Miscellaneous: Member of Lichfield District Council, up until February 21, unpaid. Member of Lichfield City Council until March 21, 2025, unpaid.

Vaz, Valerie (Walsall and Bloxwich) 

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources: English Football League, tickets and hospitality for herself and two others at the EFL League 2 play-off final to watch Walsall v AFC Wimbledon at Wembley Stadium, value £1,050, May 26. 

Miscellaneous: Non-practising solicitor. Husband Paul Townsend employed as senior parliamentary assistant, working full time.

Williamson, Sir Gavin (Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge) 

Employment and earnings: Adviser to RTC Education Ltd, a provider of undergraduate and postgraduate education programmes to UK and international students, receiving £60,000 a year, paid quarterly, for 80 hours work a year, providing general strategic advice on international business expansion and chairing regular advisory board meetings. 

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources: Carlton Club, London, honorary membership for life, value £760, received September 30, 2016.

Visits outside the UK: Somaliland Foreign Ministry, flights, accommodation, meals and miscellaneous costs, value £6,352.83, for visit to Somalia from December 9-15, 2024, to attend the inauguration of the president. School of Banking and Finance, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, accommodation £1,550.23, flights £6222.58, internal travel, £62.98, airport transport £100.76 and meals £377.85, total value £8,314.40, from June 28-July 6, to attend as keynote speaker for forum. Elnet UK, flights £973, accommodation £774; meals £335.32, insurance £18.44, value £2,100.76, for visit to Israel from July 28-31, 2025, to see October 7 sites.

Shareholdings of more than 15 per cent of issued share capital: Gratton Lansdowne, a company set up to manage his financial affairs and investments. Ravenscar Group, a company set up to manage his financial affairs and investments. Oberons Petroleum Limited, interest held from August 12, 2025.

Miscellaneous Unpaid member of the advisory board of Buenassa SARL, since July 22, 2025. Member of the advisory board for Restore Britain, unpaid, since July 31, 2025.

Witherden, Steve (Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr)

Miscellaneous: Negotiating secretary NASUWT Wrexham Association, unpaid. 

Wood, Mike (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)

 Nil