MPs declare sports and bookies as most common donors

In September 2017 we published a story on sports and betting companies topping the list of donors treating MPs to gifts and hospitality.

The story was based on an analysis of the latest MPs' register of interests, and followed a story the previous month on MPs employing relatives. The data was scraped using a script written in Python.

Get the data

• Gifts and hospitality, by gift and MP, August 31 2017

Other documents

• The Code of Conduct together with The Guide to the Rules relating to the Conduct of Members - House of Commons: Chapter 1: Registration of Members' Financial Interests

Visualisation

• Bar chart: Donors appearing most in register of MPs' interests (shown above)
• Bar chart: Biggest donors by value

Code

These are part of a longer script which is still under development and will be published here later:

• Python function: get each gift
• Python function: count numbers and find largest number in declaration text string

Related repos

• Register of interests: MPs employing family members