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More than 100 MPs have earned over £10,000 a year as landlords over the course of this parliament, research from Sky News has found.
A total of 83 Tories have declared they received the sizeable rental payments since the last election in December 2019, along with 18 Labour MPs, four Liberal Democrats and one member of the SNP.
But many more could be benefiting from a smaller income as landlords, as MPs only have to publish it on the register of interests if rent tops the £10,000 annual figure.
The numbers come as the long-awaited Renters’ Reform Bill returns to the Commons on Wednesday, with campaigners demanding stronger action to make the market fairer for those renting their homes.
The majority of the MPs found in Sky News’ research were landlords of residential properties – with 104 of them having a stake in over 217 homes.
But 12 also let out commercial properties, 12 make an income from renting their farms, and one even leases a fishery.
A total of seven cabinet members made the list, with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt clocking up the largest portfolio – seven flats in Southampton, 50% of a holiday home in Italy and 50% of an office building in London.
Three shadow cabinet members also have the additional income – though no more than the single property owned by shadow foreign secretary David Lammy in Tottenham, London.
Vested interest of landlords
However, the MP with the biggest list of rental incomes was the Conservative member for Sedgefield, Paul Howell, who lists two flats in County Durham, five houses in Durham,…
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