The Prime Minister’s donations from the last 12 months have recently been revealed.
The Prime Minister’s donations was revealed last night (Image: Getty)
Andy Burnham has received £345,000 in donations in the past 12 months, with Lord Sainsbury and Lord Blunkett among those who gave money to the Prime Minister. Mr Burnham also accepted two tickets worth £3,800 from Sony Music to attend the Brit Awards, two tickets worth £500 to Aintree racecourse and four tickets to last year’s Glastonbury festival, during his former role as the mayor of Greater Manchester.
The donations, listed in the most recent version of the MPs’ register of interests, are the first declared by the PM since he was elected in June. It is standard practice for new MPs to register all their current financial interest and any registerable benefits they received in the year before their election.
Lord Sainsbury, a promiment Labour donor, handed £164,347 including in the form of ‘office space’ and the cost of contractors working on ‘policy and operations’ for Mr Burnham from June. Lord Blunkett donated £2,000 during the Makerfield by-election campaign.
The fillings also show that Mr Burham recieved £25,000 from businessman Gary Lubner towards his Labour leadership bid, £50,000 from a company run by TV producer Charlie Parsons, and that ThinkLabour, the think-tank formerly known as Labour Together, gave over £22,000 in staffing and IT equipment for the Prime Minsiter’s office in June.
Ernst And Young provided a secondment to his team worth £16,500 in July.
Mr Burnham recieved tickets for the Brit Awards (Image: Getty)
Before the £325,000 of donations made during the Makerfield contest and Labour leadership bid, Mr Burnham received four £5,000 donations from the Fire Brigades Union, its North-west regional office, the Communication Workers Union and Unison, for ‘mayoral’ campaigning, reports the Daily Mail.
A Labour Party spokesman said: ‘All declarations have been made in line with parliamentary and Electoral Commission rules.’