Name: Paul Townsend
Relationship: Spouse
Role: Senior Parliamentary Assistant
Working pattern: Full time
(Updated 5 January 2017)
Register of Interests
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Register of Members’ Financial Interests
What MPs themselves declare to Parliament: gifts, hospitality, employment and earnings, overseas visits, land and property, shareholdings and family interests. Search 3,412 declared entries across every MP, filter by category or date, and follow each entry back to the Member.
This is the parliamentary register: declarations MPs make about their own interests. It is separate from political donations recorded by the Electoral Commission, which tracks money given to parties and candidates. Two different registers, two different sources.
Declared donations to MPs
£0
Total across 676 donations declared by MPs in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests (Category 2), as of 13 October 2026.
Register-declared figures only. Gifts and hospitality (benefits in kind) and Electoral Commission party donations are counted separately and are not included in this figure.
Showing all 3,412 entries, most recently registered first
Name: Jennifer Murrison
Relationship: Spouse
Role: Senior Caseworker
Working pattern: Part time
(Updated 29 June 2015)
Unremunerated director of CSL Publishing Ltd; publishing and other consultancy services.
(Updated 17 November 2015)
Name: Simon Grant
Relationship: Spouse
Role: Senior Parliamentary Assistant
Working pattern: Full time
Additional information: I also employ my husband, Simon Grant, as Office Manager.
(Updated 18 November 2021)
Name: Kate Hoare
Relationship: Spouse
Role: Office Manager
Working pattern: Full time
(Registered 29 February 2016; updated 20 December 2019 and 14 November 2023)
Name: Emily Grace Ahmed
Relationship: Daughter
Role: Executive Office Manager
Working pattern: Full time
(Registered 3 June 2016; updated 7 June 2018, 14 December 2020 and 14 February 2024)
Type of land/property: Commercial property (offices and storage)
Number of properties: 1
Location: Croydon
Ownership details: held in trust by James Hay Pension Trustees Ltd, on behalf of myself and my husband
Rental income: from 1 April 2017
(Updated 7 September 2015 and 3 April 2017)
Name: Sally Clark
Relationship: Spouse
Role: Office Manager
Working pattern: Part time
Additional information: My spouse, Sally Clark, is also employed as part time Senior Parliamentary Assistant.
(Updated 16 April 2019)
Type of land/property: Residential property (Flat)
Number of properties: 1
Location: Glasgow
Rental income: from 1 June 2016
(Registered 2 June 2015; updated 28 June 2016 and 11 October 2016)
Type of land/property: Residential property
Number of properties: 1
Location: Southend on Sea
Interest held: from 3 October 2023
Ownership details: Owned jointly with my wife.
Rental income: from 1 December 2023
(Registered 19 December 2023; updated 11 January 2024)
Board Member (unpaid) of Fit for the Future, a network of mainly charities helping organisations to become climate-friendly and resilient.
(Registered 6 July 2017; updated 31 January 2020)
Unpaid director of the Peace and Justice Project, a company limited by guarantee. The company promotes peace and justice issues, both domestic and international.
Date interest arose: 13 October 2020
(Registered 26 February 2021; updated 16 December 2021 and 25 February 2022)
Type of land/property: Residential property (Flat)
Number of properties: 1
Location: London
Ownership details: owned jointly with my wife
Rental income: from 1 June 2016
(Registered 2 June 2015; updated 28 June 2016 and 11 October 2016)
Type of land/property: Residential property (property)
Number of properties: 1
Location: London
Interest held: from 1 November 2017
Ownership details: Joint ownership
Rental income: Yes
(Registered 15 January 2019; updated 4 April 2019)
An ambassador for Spring Housing Association.
Date interest arose: 29 September 2020
Additional information: Before 29 September 2020, I was a Non Executive Unpaid Director.
(Registered 5 July 2017; updated 8 December 2020)
Type of land/property: Agricultural land (A single agricultural holding in Norfolk owned before becoming a Member of Parliament in 1992, and part of a family partnership (East Beckham) used for arable farming and tourism)
Location: Norfolk
Ownership details: part of a family partnership
Rental income: Yes
(Updated 17 November 2021)
Unpaid Director of Apsana Begum Ltd.
Date interest arose: 10 January 2023
(Registered 27 February 2023)
Name of donor: Buck’s Club 1919
Address of donor: 18 Clifford Street, London W15 3RF
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Honorary life membership of Buck’s Club 1919 (value provided is that in 2024), value £1,625
Date received: 1 January 2002
Date accepted: 1 January 2002
Donor status: company, registration 03275185
(Updated 22 January 2024)
Name of donor: Pratt’s Club
Address of donor: 14 Park Place, London SW1A 1LP
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Honorary life membership as a Special Member (value provided is that in 2024), value £350
Date received: 1 June 2012
Date accepted: 1 June 2012
Donor status: unincorporated association
(Updated 23 January 2024)
Role, work or services: Being a member of a grants application panel
Payer: Fight for Sight, 18 Mansell Street, London E1 8AA
A patron of the Peace Hospice, Watford (unpaid).
Date interest arose: 7 July 2016
(Registered 29 July 2016)
Officer in the Reserve Forces. I have received no payments since my election.
(Registered 4 June 2016; updated 27 October 2016)
Trustee of the Jewish Museum London. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 4 March 2024)
Unremunerated director of GLOBE International AISBL, an international non-profit network devoted to legislative leadership on sustainable development and climate change.
Date interest arose: 7 January 2016
(Registered 3 February 2016)
Councillor, Perth and Kinross Council from 1st January 2020. I receive no allowances for this role.
(Registered 7 January 2020)
Solicitor, non-practising since 8 May 2015.
(Registered 19 July 2021)
Name of donor: Sky Subscriber Services Ltd
In recognition of my previous 20 years' service, Sky Subscriber Services Ltd has provided me with an open-ended subscription to Sky television and telecommunication packages. Annual value for 2022-2023, approx. £500.
(Registered 10 January 2020; updated 13 April 2021 and 5 February 2024)
Patron, Bath Festivals.
(Registered 5 July 2017)
Chair of Rotherham 9th Scouts Group. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 11 April 2023)
Trustee of Datchet Women’s Institute (this is an unpaid role).
(Registered 4 July 2022)
Vice President of the Local Government Association. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 9 March 2023)
Portfolio of shares held in a blind trust.
(Registered 29 October 2019)
Member of the British Equine Veterinary Association.
(Registered 7 January 2020)
Barrister, not currently practising.
(Registered 4 June 2015)
Sole Trader, Christine Jardine Communications (inactive), media consultancy.
(Registered 6 July 2017)
Non-practising solicitor and notary public in Scotland.
Date interest arose: 31 October 2016
(Registered 22 October 2015; updated 9 November 2016)
Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
(Registered 7 January 2020)
Unpaid Director of Toussaint Ventures Ltd, which provides support for my political campaigning and activities.
Date interest arose: 15 July 2022
(Registered 8 August 2022; updated 14 February 2024)
My shareholding in Adventure Forest Group Ltd (adventure leisure) was transferred into an employee ownership trust on 21 October 2021. As part of this agreement a value for my shareholding is scheduled to be repaid to me periodically over the next 10 years.
(Registered 25 November 2021)
Non-practising solicitor in England and Wales; member of the Law Society of England and Wales.
Date interest arose: 18 July 2019
(Registered 22 October 2015; updated 23 July 2019)
Source: the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, published by the House of Commons and synced from the Parliament Members API. Entries are the Members’ own declarations. Covers 588 of 650 current MPs; the remainder have no registrable interests recorded.
Register of interests last updated 18 October 2026. Source: UK Parliament.