Registered Interests
The Register of Members’ Financial Interests is updated fortnightly online when the House is sitting, and less frequently at other times. Interests remain in the Register for twelve months after the interest has ended.
The interests set out below are those included in the most recently published version of the Register. All versions of the Register can be found here.1. Employment and earnings
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From February 2016, as an author, payments from Head of Zeus Publishing; a client of Averbrook Ltd. Address: 45-47 Clerkenwell Green London EC1R 0HT, via Sheil Land, 52 Doughty Street. London WC1N 2LS. Hours: 12 non-consecutive hrs per week. (Updated 20 January 2016, 14 October 2016 and 2 March 2018)
- 29 April 2022, received £9,974 in royalties. Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 13 May 2022)
- 29 April 2022, received £6,600 for public lending rights. Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 13 May 2022)
- 22 October 2022, received £7,300 in royalties for book sales. Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 17 November 2022)
- 2 December 2022, received £480 from Reach Shared Services Limited, First Floor, 5 St Pauls Square, Liverpool L3 9SJ, for writing a newspaper article for the Daily Express. Hours: approx. 1 hr. (Registered 6 December 2022)
7. (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Director and shareholder of Averbrook, a writing and media consultancy. (Registered 10 June 2013)
9. Family members employed and paid from parliamentary expenses
- I employ my daughter, Jennifer Dorries, as Senior Parliamentary Assistant. (Updated 15 April 2019)