Councillors' registers of interests
Councillors' registers of interests is kept by Each council's monitoring officer. Disclosable pecuniary interests: their job, sponsorship, contracts with the council, land, licences, tenancies and shareholdings, and those of a spouse or partner.
- Kept by
- Each council's monitoring officer
- Who is on it
- Every councillor in England, from parish councils to county councils and combined authorities
- What it shows
- Disclosable pecuniary interests: their job, sponsorship, contracts with the council, land, licences, tenancies and shareholdings, and those of a spouse or partner.
- How to search it
- On each council's website, usually on the councillor's profile page. The monitoring officer must make the register available for inspection.
- Cost
- Free to search
- Levels of power
- level 2: parish and town, level 3: local councils, level 4: county and metro
- Official register
- legislation.gov.uk, read 4 November 2026 · saved copy
- The law behind it
- legislation.gov.uk, read 4 November 2026 · saved copy
Not published? Ask for it
If the register does not show what you need, you can ask the body that keeps it. Public authorities must answer Freedom of Information requests within 20 working days; information about the environment comes under the Environmental Information Regulations; and information about yourself under a subject access request.
Other registers: politicians and influence
- Register of Members' Financial Interests (MPs)
- Register of Lords' Interests
- List of Ministers' Interests
- Ministers' gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings
- Business appointment advice for former ministers and officials (formerly ACOBA)
- Register of Consultant Lobbyists
- Scottish Lobbying Register
- Register of Interests of MSPs
- Register of Members' Interests (Northern Ireland Assembly)
- Register of Members' Interests (Senedd)
- Donations and loans to political parties
- Donations to MPs, MSPs, mayors, councillors and party members
- Register of All-Party Parliamentary Groups
- MPs' business costs
- Members of the Privy Council
- Investigations by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
- Sitting MPs imprisoned since 1945
All 69 public registers of power and money.
Where this comes from
Localism Act 2011, read 4 November 2026 · saved copy. The description above summarises what the official page says the register contains. Report an error.