The Register of Members' Financial Interests: Part 1
As at 3rd February 2014

NORMAN, Jesse (Hereford and South Herefordshire)

2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc

Payments from News International, PO Box 151, Peterborough PE7 9YT:

22 February 2012, payment of £500 for article for The Times. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 28 February 2013)

2 December 2013, payment of £300 for book review in The Times. Payment donated to charity. (Registered 18 December 2013)

Payments from The Economist Group, 20 Cabot Square, London E14 4QW:

£280 received for an article. Hours: 2 hrs. The payment was donated to charity. (Registered 24 April 2013)

Payments from the Telegraph Media Group, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT:

19 March 2013, payment of £360 for an article. Hours: 2 hrs. Payment donated to charity. (Registered 22 July 2013)

23 July 2013, payment of £225 for an article. Hours: 2 hrs. Payment donated to charity. (Registered 29 August 2013)

Payments received via Peters Fraser & Dunlop, literary agency, Drury House, 34-43 Russell Street, London WC2B 5HA:

From Perseus books LL (Headquarters), 250 West 57th St., 15th Floor, New York, NY 10107:

20 December 2012, payment of £12,318.20 for book advance. Hours: unable to calculate. (Registered 28 February 2013)

21 February 2013, payment of £6,444 for book advance. Hours: unable to calculate. (Registered 28 February 2013)

From Harper Collins, 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8JB:

21 December 2012, payment of £2,460 for book advance. Hours: unable to calculate. (Registered 28 February 2013)

Payment of £500 from Associated Newspapers Ltd, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT, for feature article in Mail on Sunday. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 28 February 2013)

30 May 2013, payment of £150 from Bristol Cultural Development Partnership, Leigh Court, Abbots Leigh, Bristol BS8 3RA, for speaking at Bristol Festival of Ideas. Hours: 2 hrs. Payment donated to charity. (Registered 22 July 2013)

2 July 2013, payment of £300 from Lord North Street Ltd, 6 Duke Street, St James, London SW1Y 6BN, for speaking at a lunch event. Hours: 2 hrs. Payment donated to charity. (Registered 22 July 2013)

23 September 2013, payment of £550 from Liberty Fund, Inc., 8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Ste 300, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46250-1684 USA, for taking part in a weekend conference on "Tocqueville on Aristocratic and Democratic Liberty" in France, 3-6 October 2013. On 24 October 2013 I received reimbursement of £237 from Liberty Fund, Inc. for travel costs to the conference. (Registered 18 December 2013)

21 October 2013, payment from Edinburgh Book Festival, 5a Charlotte Square, Edinburgh EH2 4DR, for speaking at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 11 August 2013. Payment donated to charity. (Registered 18 December 2013)

21 October 2013, payment of £145.17 from Harper Collins publishers, 103 Westerhill Road, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow G64 2QT, to reimburse costs of travel to speak at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 11 August 2013. (Registered 18 December 2013)

6. Overseas visits

Name of donor:

5) UK-China Forum (UKCF) Ltd, with sponsorship support from BP, Barclays and Rolls Royce.

6) International Department of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC)

Address of donor:

5) UKCF, 15 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PS

6) IDCPC, 4 Fuxing Lu, Beijing 100860, China

Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value):

5) Business class flights paid by UKCF; cost £3,196

6) Hotel and food paid by IDCPC; cost £376

Destination of visit: Beijing, China

Date of visit: 12-16 January 2013

Purpose of visit: to attend the UK-China Leadership Forum, an annual event organised by the Great Britain-China Centre.

(Registered 28 February 2013)

7. Overseas benefits and gifts

See my entry in Category 2.

8. Land and Property

Flat in London.

9. Shareholdings

(b) Genie Toys PLC; toy design and manufacture