Yorkshire MPs rack up over £3 million of extra income since 2019

Mason Boycott-Owen
By Mason Boycott-Owen
Published 8th Jan 2023, 16:17 BST
Updated 10th Jan 2023, 10:45 BST
Yorkshire MPs have received over £3m in gifts, donations and earnings in addition to their salaries, new analysis has found.

It comes as part of a joint project between Sky News and the news website Tortoise which has shone a light on the incomes of parliamentarians after its launch on Sunday.

The news outlets found that MPs made £17.1m in earnings on top of their salaries in this parliament, with the vast majority going to Conservatives, with a total of £15.2 million since December 2019.

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Analysis of the project’s data by The Yorkshire Post found that MPs across the region’s four counties received around £3.3m of gifts, donations and earnings on top of their salary.

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Conservative MPs received around £1.8m, while Labour politicians took £1.6m according to the tool, which has been made available to the public to check their MP’s income.

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