The Register of Members' Financial Interests
As at 11 January 2016

Byrne, Liam (Birmingham, Hodge Hill)

Byrne, Liam (Birmingham, Hodge Hill)

1. Employment and earnings

Payments for teaching received from Oxford University Said Business School, University of Oxford, OX1 5NY:

Received £1,250 for teaching on 23 April 2014. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 06 March 2015)

Payments from the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society Ltd, Writers’ House, 13 Haydon St, London EC3N 1DB, for licencing fees:

Received £114 for 2012-13. Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 06 March 2015)

Received £130 for 2013-14. Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 06 March 2015)

Received £204.53, total to date for 2014-15. Hours: no additional hours. (Registered 06 March 2015)

Payments from Head of Zeus, Clerkenwell House, 45-47 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0HT, received via Capel and Land, 29 Wardour St, London W1D 6PS:

18 August 2015, advance of £1,804 for a book. Hours: approx. 20 hrs. (Registered 25 September 2015)

4. Visits outside the UK

Name of donor: Medical Aid for Palestinians
Address of donor: Medical Aid for Palestinians, 33a Islington Park Street, London N1 1QB
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): costs of flights, accommodation and transport; total £1,100
Date of visit: 16-18 January 2015
Destination: West Bank and Israel
Purpose of visit: Fact finding visit to the West Bank organised by the Council for Arab-British Understanding and Medical Aid for Palestinians.
(Registered 20 February 2015)

Name of donor: UK China Forum Ltd
Address of donor: 15 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PS
Amount of donation: flights from Doha to Beijing, and from Shanghai to London, value￡1,688.50;
Two nights in a hotel in Beijing and two nights in a hotel in Shanghai at ￡140 per night,value £560; £2,248.50 in total
Date of visit: 16 to 19 November 2015
Destination: Beijing and Shanghai
Purpose of visit: Cross-party Parliamentary visit to Beijing and Shanghai, to attend the 2015 UK-China Leadership Forum, for the purpose of promoting UK-China dialogues.
(Registered 03 December 2015)

Name of donor: (1) Qaiwan Group (2) Kurdistan Regional Government
Address of donor: (1) 4th Floor Sulaymaniyah Mall, Iraq (2) Council of Ministers, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): (1) flights, approx. £2,400 and one night's hotel accommodation in Slemani, £300; total £2,700 (2) 3 nights' hotel accommodation in Erbil, £450 and internal transport, £555; total £1,005
Destination of visit: Kurdistan Region of Iraq, including Erbil, Slemani and Kirkuk
Date of visit: 11-16 November 2015
Purpose of visit: APPG Kurdistan fact-finding delegation to meet senior political leaders including the Prime Minister, UK Consul-General, Kurdistan Britain Business Group, two camps for internally displaced people, the American University of Iraq and the Peshmerga in Kirkuk.
(Registered 10 December 2015)

9. Family members employed and paid from parliamentary expenses

I employ my wife, Sarah Harnett, as part-time Office Manager.