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GORDON Brown has earned £1.3million from his writing and speeches since he stood down as PM – and not taken a penny of it.

Brown’s earnings since he left No10 after the May 2010 general election are revealed in his latest entry in the Commons register of members’ interests.

It shows that £997,000 in fees and £293,000 in expenses has been paid to the Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown, which he set up with his wife to fund charity work and campaigns.

Brown’s spokeswoman said yesterday: “Not a single penny from speeches nor books goes to Mr Brown personally.

“His sole personal earnings are his salary as an MP because he has also renounced the prime ministerial pension he was entitled to receive immediately he retired as PM.”

The Browns set up their office to fund campaigns on issues such as improving education and cutting maternal death rates in the developing world.

The couple were deeply affected by the death of their first child, Jennifer Jane, who died when she was 10 days old in January 2002.

Though Brown’s lecture circuit earnings are huge by most people’s standards, they are dwarfed by those of his predecessor Tony Blair, who makes more than £12million a year from speaking and his work as an international envoy.

In 2010, Blair’s fortune was estimated at £45million and he owned property worth £14million.

Since leaving office, Brown has become convener of the Global Campaign for Education, running a new programme to bring the internet to Africa, and joined the board of Tim Berners Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation. But it is unpaid work.

As well as his speaking fees, he received an advance of more than £78,000 for Beyond the Crash, his book on the financial crisis.

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath MP Brown is rarely seen in the Commons since returning to the backbenches but he has campaigned on local issues such as the radioactive clean-up of Dalgety Bay.