MPs in Sussex received hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations leading up to the General Election . Donors including the chief executive of cosmetics chain Lush and the chairman of an investment firm are among those to have donated thousands to candidates in the run-up to the July 4 election which saw a landslide Labour victory. In total, sitting MPs in Sussex received more than £800,000 in publicly declared donations.
Brighton and Hove MPs Peter Kyle and Sian Berry received among the highest donations in the county. Peter Kyle (Image: The Argus) Both received nearly £175,000 in financial interests including donations, gifts from the UK and visits outside the country. Mr Kyle, MP for Hove and Portslade and now Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary, received £66,560 from digital consultancy firm Public Digital.
The money paid for a person to be seconded to work with Mr Kyle in his previous role in the Shadow Cabinet prior to the election. Mr Kyle also received £50,000 from Simon Ruddick, chairman of investment advisory firm Albourne Partners. He also attended the Brit Awards and a Madonna concert with the Football Association and Sky Arts respectively.
Sian Berry (Image: The Argus) New Brighton Pavilion MP Sian Berry also received around £175,000 in the run up to the General Election. Her biggest donors included Matthew Oakeshott, who also backed her predecessor Caroline Lucas, and Mark Constantine OBE, the co-founder of cosmetics company Lush. Ms Lucas also received other single donations of £40,000 and £44,036.
08. How much money each MP received: Brighton Pavilion – Sian Berry: £176,786.07 Hove and Portslade – Peter Kyle: £174,862.
95 Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven – Chris Ward: £5,401.43 East Worthing and Shoreham – Tom Rutland: £30,668.51 Worthing West – Beccy Cooper: £8,700 Lewes – James MacCleary: £57,060 Hastings and Rye – Helena Dollimore: £61,075 Eastbourne – Josh Babarinde: £76,472.
22 Sussex Weald – Nusrat Ghani: £1851.10 Mid Sussex – Alison Bennett: £42,230 East Grinstead and Uckfield – Mims Davies: £6,000 Arundel and South Downs – Andrew Griffith: £46,850 Crawley – Peter Lamb: £22,656.25 Horsham – John Milne: £2,500 Bognor Regis and Littlehampton – Alison Griffiths: £11,000 Chichester – Jess Brown Fuller: £92,920 The current basic annual salary for an MP is £91,346.
All MPs must declare all their current financial interests received in the 12 months before their election..
