MPs have earned at least £250,000 for work in the UK higher education sector since the last election.
Times Higher Education has analysed data from The Westminster Accounts, a joint project between Sky News and Tortoise Media, which looks at the earnings, donations, gifts, and financial benefits parliament has received since December 2019.
The figures reveal that 17 MPs have earned more than £210,000 between them for working at British universities over this time – which comes on top of their base salary of £84,144.
Of that, £103,800 was earned by Conservative backbencher Sir John Hayes for working part-time as professor at the University of Bolton. Andrea Jenkyns, the former higher education minister, earned £42,940 as director of Bolton’s National Centre for Higher Education Policy, a thinktank.
