
Nine cabinet ministers, including the prime minister, are making more than £10,000 a year by acting as landlords, a Guardian analysis has found.
Following Jeremy Hunt’s failure to declare the purchase of seven luxury flats that he subsequently rented out, an analysis of the parliamentary register of MPs’ interests shows eight other members of the cabinet own property that is rented out for a five-figure annual sum.
The health secretary was forced to make an embarrassing apology on Friday after it emerged that he had failed to declare a business interest with both Companies House and the parliamentary register of MPs’ interests.
Hunt has amended the register, which now shows that he has a half share of a holiday home in Italy, a half share in an office building in Hammersmith and seven recently acquired apartments in Southampton.
Theresa May and Philip Hammond, who both live in Downing Street, rent out their personal homes in central London. Communities and housing secretary Sajid Javid also rents out property, while Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, rents out two properties, according to the register
The foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, the international trade secretary, Liam Fox, the minister without portfolio, Brandon Lewis – who is also the Conservative party chairman – and the Welsh minister, Alun Cairns, also own and rent out a property, according to the register.
There is no suggestion that the ministers are in breach of the ministerial code.
The cabinet’s property portfolio
Rental properties with value over £100,000 and/or giving income of over £10,000 a year
Jeremy Hunt
Secretary of state for health and social care
0.5
share of
holiday
house
in Italy
0.5
share of
an office
building in
Hammersmith
7
apartments in
Southampton
Theresa May
Prime minister
Philip Hammond
Chancellor
1
flat, central London
1
house in London
Boris Johnson
Foreign secretary
Sajid Javid
Local government
1
house in London
1
house in
Bristol
1
house in
London
Liam Fox
International trade
Chris Grayling
Transport
1
residential property
in London SE1
2
terraced houses in
London
Alun Cairns
MP, Wales
Brandon Lewis
MP
1
property in Cardiff
1
House in Essex
Theresa May
Prime minister
Philip Hammond
Chancellor
Jeremy Hunt
Secretary of state for health and social care
1
flat in central
London
1
house in London
0.5
share of
holiday
house
in…