Liam Fox

Liam Fox is the former UK Secretary of State for Defence.

Register of Members Financial Interests entries

Register as at 24th January 2011

4. Sponsorship or financial or material support

(a) Donations to my constituency party or association, which have been or will be reported by my party to the Electoral Commission:

• Name of donor: Mr Kenneth Edis

Address of donor: private Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £1,900. (This donation was given to the constituency association, who will report it to the Electoral Commission.) Donor status: individual (Registered 20 May 2010)

(b) Support in the capacity as an MP: Contributions to staffing and running of private office from:

• Name of donor: Mr Chris Lewis

Address of donor: private Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000 Date of receipt: 18 January 2010 Date of acceptance: 18 January 2010 Donor status: individual (Registered 29 January 2010)

• Name of donor: Mr Jon Moulton

Address of donor: private Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £50,000 (given to me in my previous capacity as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence) Date of receipt: 26 January 2010 Date of acceptance: 26 January 2010 Donor status: individual (Registered 29 January 2010)

5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)

• In my capacity as Shadow Foreign Secretary (2005-06) and Shadow Defence Secretary (from January 2006), I have received upgrades from Virgin Atlantic on some flights connected with overseas visits for which I have met my own flight and accommodation costs. (The details of these overseas visits have been provided to the office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.)
• Name of donor: Mr Stanley Fink

Address of donor : private Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: my wife and I received tickets to the Conservative Party’s general election fundraising dinner (value: £700) Date of receipt of donation: 1 February 2010 Date of acceptance of donation: 1 February 2010 Donor status: individual (Registered 11 February 2010)

• Name of donor: The Carlton Club

Address of donor : 69 St James’s Street, London SW1A 1PJ Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: renewal of honorary membership; value £790 Date of receipt of donation: 1 January 2011 Date of acceptance of donation: 1 January 2011 Donor status: Company, registration number 00573221 (Registered 14 January 2011) 6. Overseas visits

• Name of donor: 1) Government of Sri Lanka

2) Sri Lanka Development Trust Address of donor:1) High Commission for Sri Lanka, 13 Hyde Park Gardens, London W2 2LU 2) 50 Lothian Road, Festival Square, Edinburgh EH3 9WJ Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): 1) Hotel accommodation for my wife and me in Colombo; value £900 2) Return business class flight to Colombo; value £2650 Destination of visit: Colombo, Sri Lanka Date of visit: 14-18 February 2010 Purpose of visit: to undertake a series of meetings and discussions with the Government of Sri Lanka exploring practical ways of facilitating investment in social infrastructure projects across Sri Lanka. (Registered 15 March 2010)

Register as at 28th September 2011

5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK) In my capacity as Shadow Foreign Secretary (2005-06) and Shadow Defence Secretary (from January 2006), I received upgrades from Virgin Atlantic on some flights connected with overseas visits for which I have met my own flight and accommodation costs. (The details of these overseas visits have been provided to the office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.)

• Name of donor: The Carlton Club

Address of donor : 69 St James’s Street, London SW1A 1PJ Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: renewal of honorary membership; value £790 Date of receipt of donation: 1 January 2011 Date of acceptance of donation: 1 January 2011 Donor status: Company, registration number 00573221 (Registered 14 January 2011)

• Name of donor: CQS Management Ltd

Address of donor: 5th floor, 33 Chester Street, London SW1X 7BL Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: flight from Washington DC to Farnborough valued at £10,439 Date of receipt of donation: 24 May 2011 Date of acceptance of donation: 19 May 2011 Donor status: Company, registration number 03691917 (Registered 27 June 2011)

Affiliations

• Atlantic Bridge - Executive Board
• Conservative Friends of Israel - Parliamentary Group
• Young Britons' Foundation - Parliamentary Council

Resources

• Liam Fox's "homophobic past" revealed, By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk • March 9, 2008 - 3:00
• Paul Hutcheon 'Revealed: Tory MP's "homophobic" Scot quit student council over gays "flaunting it"' Sunday Herald 8 Mar 2008
• Guardian, Liam Fox and Adam Werritty links, accesed 13 October 2008.
• Polly Curtis, Jason Burke and Rupert Neate, Liam Fox faces fresh questions on Sri Lanka links, Guardian, 13 October 2011.
• Jon Swaine, Robert Winnett and James Kirkup, Liam Fox, Adam Werritty, and the $500 bash that went undeclared, Telegraph, 13 October 2011.
• Deborah Haynes, David Taylor, Fox's friend was funded by private intelligence group, The Times, 14 October 2011.