The money that moves through UK politics

Every fact below is on a public register: the Electoral Commission’s donations register, Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, the APPG register and the GOV.UK transparency releases. Each publishes its own part in its own format. This page reads them side by side, so a donor, an MP and a contract can be seen together.

Headline links between registers

Four places where two registers name the same people or organisations.

Employer and donor

MPs paid by a body that also donated to them

Organisations listed in an MP's register both as a paying employer or client and as a donor to that MP. Each pairing comes from the MP's own declarations.

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Public contractors who donate

Companies with public contracts that also donate

Companies that appear both in the government contracts records and in the Electoral Commission's donations register, with the totals from each.

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Who paid for MPs to travel

2,390 declared paid trips

Every overseas visit MPs declared as paid for by someone else, ranked by who paid, with the number of trips and their declared value.

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Donor profiles

Each donor's donations, contracts and APPG funding together

A donor's profile shows its political donations and, where the same organisation holds public contracts or funds APPGs, those records too.

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Sector and contest pivots

Money from abroad →

842 declared donations from outside the UK, by country.

Money in leadership races →

Donations declared for party leadership contests, by contest and candidate.

Money by constituency →

Donations to local parties and candidates, totalled by constituency.

Bequests →

Money left to parties in wills, as declared to the Electoral Commission, by party and estate.

APPG secretariats →

The organisations that run APPG secretariats, and how many groups each runs.

APPG funders · 568 →

Who funds APPGs, and how many groups each funds.

Reporting and compliance

Late disclosures →

Donations reported to the Electoral Commission long after they were accepted, with the gap in days.

Returned donations →

Donations the Electoral Commission records as impermissible, and what happened to them.

Money routed via trusts →

447 declared donations from trusts, by trust and recipient.

What none of this is. A pattern visible on more than one public register is not evidence of wrongdoing. UK MPs are legally allowed to take outside employment income, attend visits paid for by foreign governments, accept political donations, and officer All-Party Parliamentary Groups provided each is declared on its appropriate register. UK companies are legally allowed to bid for public contracts and donate to political parties provided each is declared. What none of this is is hidden. What much of it has been until now is unfindable. Putting it in one place is the work.

Sources, in order: Electoral Commission donations register, gov.uk Contracts Finder, parliament.uk Register of Members’ Financial Interests, mySociety APPG membership dataset, gov.uk transparency feeds. All five refresh on weekly or daily crons. Each figure on this page is derived from current data; click through to any tile for the underlying rows.