Darling, The Labour MP: Up the workers – right up them!

As lobbying for cash is all over the news, Alistair Darling’s constituents in Wester Hailes, Sighthill, Stenhouse and Gorgie should be pleased to know that as well as representing them on his meagre £66,396 p.a. salary for a full time job, he does find time for a few other activities which give him a handy quarter of a million pounds on top so that he doesn’t have to struggle. Maybe constituents should pop along to his surgeries (if he has the time to do them) to ask for a tap when they are worried about switching off their electricity so that they can eat. It really makes you wonder how they can possibly know what the rest of us are going through.

DARLING, Rt. Hon. Alistair (Edinburgh South West)
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Contract with Atlantic Books, Ormond House, 26/27 Boswell street, London WC1N 3JW for
publication of book. The contract provides for a total advance payment of £75,000 prior to
publication.

10 May 2012, I received a payment of £23,879.28 in respect of royalties from the
sale of my book. No additional hours worked. (Registered 30 May 2012)

14 June 2012, I received a payment of £4,775.86 in respect of VAT due on royalties
from book sales, registered on 30 May 2012. No additional hours worked.
(Registered 21 June 2012)

In respect of the contract with Atlantic Books I have attended the following events .
No fee was paid to me but transport and accommodation costs were met as follows:
9 June 2012, Hay Book Festival, 25 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye; hotel
accommodation for me and my wife; cost £225, and our return flights from
Edinburgh to Birmingham; cost £259.62, were paid for by Atlantic Books.
Car transport from Birmingham to Hay-on-Wye; cost £400 return, was paid
by festival organisers. Hours: 2 hrs plus travel. (Registered 21 June 2012)

15 June 2012, Althorpe Book Festival; transport costs from London to the
festival and on to Edinburgh for me and my wife; cost £359.68, were paid
by Atlantic Books. Hours: 2 hrs plus travel. (Registered 21 June 2012)

Fees for speeches paid by JLA Associates, 80 Great Portland Street, London W1W 7NW:
20 April 2012, I received a payment of £20,400 for speaking at a conference in
Dubai. Transport costs of £2,669.82 and hotel accommodation at a cost of £326.07
were paid by the organisers, Falcon Group Administrative Services (UK) Ltd, 30 St
Mary Axe, London EC3A 9BF. Hours: approx 2.5 days including travel time.
(Registered 2 May 2012)

8 June 2012, I received a payment of £12,750 for speaking at an event organised by
JC Flowers & Co UK Ltd. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 21 June 2012)

19 July 2012, I received a payment of £12,240 for speaking at an event organised by
Emap/Retail Week in London. Hours: approx 3 hrs. (Registered 24 July 2012)

6 September 2012, I received a fee of £10,200 for speaking at a conference organised
by Aberdeen Asset Management. Hours: approx 3 hours, plus travelling time.
(Registered 18 September 2012)

27 September 2012, I received a fee of £12,240 in respect of speaking at a conference
organised by Apollo Management International LLP. Hours: approx 2 hours, including travel time. (Registered 11 October 2012)

19 November 2012, I received a fee of £12,240 for speaking at an event organised by
British Property Federation, in London. Hours: approx 4 hrs. (Registered 26 November 2012)

11 December 2012, I received a payment of £12,240 in respect of a fee for speaking
at an event organised by Slaughter & May LLP, London. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 20 December 2012)

11 December 2012, I received a payment of £12,240 in respect of a fee for speaking
at an event organised by Scor Insurance, London. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 20 December 2012)

25 January 2013, I received a fee of £12,999 which included £249.60 in respect of
travel costs for speaking at a seminar organised by Pru Health. Hours: 5 hrs. (Registered 8 February 2013)

22 March 2013, I received a fee of £12,240 in respect of speaking at an event
organised by BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd, in Hampshire. Hours: approx 6 hrs, including travel time. (Registered 28 March 2013)

22 March 2013, I received a fee of £12,240 in respect of speaking at an event
organised by the Automotive Fellowship International Ltd, in Buckinghamshire.
Hours: approx 6 hrs, including travel time. (Registered 28 March 2013)

28 March 2013, I received a fee of £10,200 in respect of speaking at an event
organised by Credit Agricole Group, in London. Hours: approx 4 hrs, including
travel time. (Registered 28 March 2013)

8 June 2012, I received a payment of £1,200 from Associated Newspapers Ltd, Northcliffe
House, 2 Derry street, London W8 5TT, for an article in the Mail on Sunday. Hours: 4 hrs
approx. (Registered 21 June 2012)

Payments from MGN Ltd, 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP:
22 June 2012, I received a payment of £720 for an article published in the Sunday
Mirror. Hours: approx 3 hrs. (Registered 25 June 2012)

5 September 2012, I received a payment of £600 in respect of an article published by
the Daily Mirror. Hours: approx 2 hrs. (Registered 18 September 2012)

Payments from Guardian Newspapers, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GO, for
writing articles for the Guardian newspaper: 8 December 2012, I received a payment of £342 Hours: 2 hrs.
(Registered 20 December 2012)

28 March 2013, I received a payment of £342. Hours: approx 2 hrs. (Registered 28 March 2013)

11. Miscellaneous
Unremunerated Director and Chairman of BetterTogether 2012 Ltd (from 1 June 2012). (Registered 21 June 2012)