I quite often look at member's interests on the parliament website. Andrew Mitchell received over £70,000 for 30 days work up to October. That was just looking at one week's returns.
Whatever he said, he hasn't felt bad enough not to do consultancy work for various companies. He has his MP's salary and expenses on top of that.
I would be interested to know, Mishap, how these people on radio 4 know who is a good administrator or not. MPs change from position to position all the time and do not often get a chance to find out much about the department they are supposed to be running. Except, of course, for IDS, and he should have changed years ago.