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Last updated: 18 Mar 2024.
1. Employment and earnings
Payments received via United Agents, Lexington House, 12-26 Lexington St, Soho, London W1F 0LE:
16 February 2023, received £2,624 from Audio Always, MediaCityUK, Tomorrow, Broadway, Manchester, Salford M50 2AB, for the recording of a weekly podcast over fifteen weeks. Hours: 15 hrs. (Registered 03 March 2023)
22 February 2023, received £2,952 from Audio Always, MediaCityUK, Tomorrow, Broadway, Manchester, Salford M50 2AB, for signing new contract to record of a weekly podcast at one hour per week. Hours: none to date. (Registered 03 March 2023)
31 March 2023, received £227.85 from Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, 1st Floor, 222 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8HB, as royalties from a book. Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 24 April 2023)
From 27 March 2020 until 31 March 2023, weekly column for Independent Digital, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5HF. (Registered 16 February 2021; updated 14 March 2023)
23 March 2023, received final payment of £2,240 for eight columns in January and February. Hours: 8 hrs. (Registered 27 March 2023)
Payments from
News UK & Ireland, 1 London Bridge St, London SE1 9GF:
23 February 2023, received £600 for four appearances on the weekly News Paper review slot in January 2023. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 03 March 2023)
23 March 2023, received £1,200 for four appearances on the weekly News Paper review slot In February. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 27 March 2023)
24 May 2023, received £900 for three appearances on the weekly News Paper review slot in March 2023. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 07 June 2023)
23 June 2023, received £900 for three appearances on the weekly News Paper review slot in April 2023. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 27 June 2023)
25 July 2023, received £1,200 for four appearances on the weekly News Paper review slot in June/July 2023. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 01 August 2023)
23 August 2023, received £300 for an appearance on the weekly News Paper review slot in July 2023. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 13 September 2023)
25 September 2023, received £600 for an appearance on the weekly News Paper review slot in September 2023. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 18 October 2023)
26 October 2023, received £600 for two appearances on the weekly News Paper review slot in October 2023. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 21 November 2023)
23 November 2023, received £300 for an appearance on the weekly New Paper Review slot in November 2023. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 08 December 2023)
27 February 2023, received £588.61 from Public Lending Right, British Library, Boston Spa, Wetherby LS23 7BQ, for payments for previously written books being borrowed from UK libraries. Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 03 March 2023)
22 March 2023, received £4,738 from the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (
ALCS), 6th Floor, International House, 1
St Katharine's Way, London E1W 1UN, for use of previously published articles and works. Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 27 March 2023)
Payments from
Guardian News & Media Ltd, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1P 2AP:
3 February 2023, received £100 for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 24 May 2023)
20 April 2023, received £175 for syndication of previously written article to another publication (Abitur Englisch Rheinland-Pfalz textbook). Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 24 May 2023)
18 May 2023, received £175 for syndication of previously written article to another publication (Abitur Englisch Rheinland-Pfalz textbook). Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 24 May 2023)
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Name of donor:
Love SupremeAddress of donor: 3 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two adult tickets and two child tickets to the Love Supreme festival at which I was speaking (£577.78), plus accommodation (£150), total value £727.78
Date received: 1-2 July 2023
Date accepted: 1 July 2023
Donor status: company, registration 07167313
(Registered 26 July 2023)
Name of donor: Giants Live Ltd
Address of donor: 3 Tansley Close, Dorridge, Solihull, West Midlands B93 8UB
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Four tickets to Giant Live Strongman Event at the
Royal Albert Hall, total value £448
Date received: 8 July 2023
Date accepted: 8 July 2023
Donor status: company, registration 09784296
(Registered 01 August 2023)
8. Miscellaneous
From 16 March 2022, a trustee of the Stacy Wanjiku Welfare Trust. Having raised money for the education and welfare of Stacey Wanjiru I am a trustee of the fund. Stacey is the daughter of
Agnes Wanjiru a Kenyan woman murdered in 2012 in a case linked to
British Armed Forces. This is an unpaid role. (Registered 24 March 2022)
From 21 October 2015, a director of the Lionel Cooke Memorial Fund, a fund that provides for political organisations to undertake activity such as encouraging wider political representation. This is an unpaid role. (Registered 14 March 2023)
From 26 July 2023, a director of
Birmingham Museums Trust which manages Birmingham Museums including a site in my
constituency. This is an unpaid role. (Registered 18 September 2023)
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