The data comes from the Register of Members' Financial Interests, party political donation data from the Electoral Commission, and the Register of All Party Parliamentary Groups
Each entry can be broken into around five or six pieces of data - 175,000 data points. With a data set that large, even a small percentage of errors could be significant
Wherever possible, we have stuck with whatever is in the public domain, so changes to the official reporting need to be updated before the Westminster Accounts will be.
And the system will be updated on an ongoing basis…
💰 Ever wondered how much money MPs make outside their parliamentary salary❓
A joint investigation by Sky News and Tortoise Media found that the top 20 MP earners made close to two thirds of all of the outside earnings since December 2019
The #westminsteraccounts show that the majority of the money went to Tory politicians - a total of £15.2m - while Labour MPs earned an additional £1.2m above the £84,144 salary for the day job.
🧵 Here we reveal the top earners in Westminster 👇
🔵The top earner is Theresa May who received the most money, earning £2,550,876 since December 2019.
Her biggest pay cheque came from Cambridge Speaker Series, who gave her £408,200 for six talks in California, as well as flights and accommodation
The RMT is asking for a 7% pay rise, job security and working conditions to be protected. The union representing train drivers, Aslef, is asking for a "proper" pay rise
📅 Dec 11-12 (just Avanti West Coast), 13-14, 16-17
📅 Jan 3-4, 6-7
Eurostar
📅 Dec 16, 18, 22-23
🚌 Bus
Unite members working on Abellio-run buses in south and west London, and on Metroline buses in north and west London, are striking over a pay dispute.
🏘️ An extra £118 million pounds will be spent this year on temporary accommodation, such as hotels and B&Bs by councils, a Sky News investigation has found.
David looks like any normal healthy, happy five-year-old boy.
But he was rushed to St Mary’s Hospital two weeks ago and admitted to the hospital’s paediatric intensive care unit during what his mother describes as a “terrifying” ordeal.
His mother Bola monitors him very closely and when he told her he was in excruciating pain, saying his ‘bones were broken’ she knew his little body was under attack
She took him to her local hospital where doctors diagnosed him with the flu.
That meant with his underlying health conditions David was in excruciating pain and his health was under serious threat