Brown's company receives more than £1m Former prime minister Gordon Brown Gordon Brown's company has received income and expenses of more than £1m, on top of his salary as an MP since the general election, although the former prime minister says he has not earned "one penny" for himself. Mr Brown has been paid to give speeches around the world at up to £62,000 a time in countries as diverse as Nigeria and South Korea, according to the Commons" register of interests. The audiences included companies such as Visa International in Singapore, SkyBridge Capital in Las Vegas, Credit Suisse in Miami, Comtec Med in Geneva and Pimco in Newport Beach. Other income, which helped Mr Brown make a total of £1.07m, included £181,468 for his role as "distinguished global leader in residence" at New York University and £86,324 to be chairman of the World Economic Forum policy co-ordination group. The money is held by a company, the "Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown," set up to pay for staff to support the former Labour leader's "ongoing involvement in public life." The office is listed at Companies House. Mr Brown's spokesman refused to answer any questions about how many staff he employs in what roles, saying only: "Not one penny for speeches or for books goes to Mr Brown personally. It either goes direct to charity or funds Sarah's and Mr Brown's staff for continuing public service. The former prime minister, as an MP, is entitled to Commons expenses to maintain a handful of aides for parliamentary work. For the majority of his speeches abroad, the hosts have paid for the travel and accommodation of Mr Brown and one of his staff. PM's team diversified David Miliband, foreign secretary in Mr Brown's last cabinet, has earnt more than £470,000 since the election, double the prime minister's income during the period. Mr Miliband, who lost the Labour leadership contest to his younger brother Ed, has developed a wide range of outside interests while remaining on the Labour backbenches. He has business roles including senior adviser to the VantagePoint CleanTech Advisory Council in California for up to £95,000 a year. Mr Miliband has received payments for speeches around the world, including £10,890 to address a Pakistani company, Agroventures, in Islamabad in May, and £19,258 for a lecture to the Ericsson Networked Society Forum in Hong Kong in November. In September, he received £25,027 for a week's teaching at Stanford University in California. Lord Mandelson has set up a "strategic advice consultancy" with former aide Benjamin Wegg-Prosser called Global Counsel, part-owned by WPP. Under House of Lords rules, the former business secretary does not have to disclose his clients. Nor does Lord Mandelson have to say how much money he receives for public speaking and writing, payments for which are made to another company, Willbury Limited. Lord Hutton, former energy secretary, is now chairman of the Nuclear Industries Association. He also works as an adviser to Eversheds, the law firm, and Bechtel Corporation, a company involved in engineering, building and project management. Under Lords rules he does not have to disclose his income. Alistair Darling has made £81,000 from speeches at dinners organised by Cinven, Macquarie, Bloomberg, Bank of New York Mellon/Pershing and others. The former chancellor, who is still an MP, also received £75,000 for his memoirs, Back from the Brink. Jack Straw is paid up to £30,000 a year as a consultant to ED & F MAN Holdings, the commodity traders. The former justice secretary also is also paid for speaking engagements, book reviews and columns. The website for the company says: "We are budgeting to meet salaries, accommodation costs and staff expenses of around £550,000 a year." The site adds that the costs of the office include "salaries and rent," and gives its address as Broadgate Tower in the City. Calls to the reception desk at the office block are directed upstairs to Reed Smith, the law firm whose partner David Boutcher is company secretary for the Brown's organisation. Mr Boutcher told the Financial Times that the office was based there but said he did not know how many employees it had nor whether it sublet from Reed Smith. The Labour MP supports good causes including the Jennifer Brown Institute and the PiggyBanksKids charity, which was set up by his wife. Mr Brown still pursues his interest in development aid, education and globalisation, having helped to launch the "Jobs and Justice" campaign by "Avaaz," a global network of activists. According to the Commons" register another £123,429 has been paid directly to charity as a result of Mr Brown's work, including £78,289 received for a book he published at the end of last year called "Beyond the Crash." The former prime minister's pro bono work includes acting as chair of the "high level panel" for the Global Campaign for Education, s board member for the World Wide Web Foundation and patron of the Burma Campaign. Mr Brown's supporters contrast his set-up with that of his predecessor Tony Blair, who is paid millions through a business advisory firm, in between his charity and faith initiatives. Tony Blair Associates advises clients such as the Kuwait government and Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi investment fund. In early November, Mr Brown received a standing ovation for a speech at the World Innovation Summit in Education (Wise) in Qatar and separately warned about the fragility of the eurozone in a speech in Moscow, according to newspaper cuttings. Neither of these speeches have yet appeared in the register of interests. His spokeswoman refused to explain the apparent omission beyond saying: "Mr Brown's entries on the register of members interests are updated fully and regularly in accordance with the rules." The former prime minister has only spoken rarely in the House of Commons since his general election defeat. On November 30 Mr Brown spoke at length during a Commons adjournment debate about radiation risk in Dalgety Bay, Fife, within his constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. In July, during a debate on phone hacking, he made an angry attack on Rupert Murdoch and his newspaper empire. The former prime minister still carries out a regular MP's surgery to deal with constituents" woes. Helen Eadie, a local member of the Scottish Parliament, says Mr Brown had been "really active" in local politics and was rarely out of the local newspapers. "He's out there visiting old people's homes or meeting young people and any of the local companies that are in any difficulties know who to get in touch with," she said.