Private donations to parliamentary offices, bottles of whisky and port, bouquets of flowers and extra staff from the private sector all feature in the latest update to MPs' interests under the new regime of transparency introduced at Westminster following the expenses scandal.
A number of leading MPs register financial help in their frontbench roles. The latest additions include Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, who last month received £14,500 in two donations towards the running of his private office.
One was for £10,000 from Stanley Fink, the party treasurer, while the other for £4500 came from Alan Howard, another Tory donor.
William Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, registered getting a £10,500 cash donation in June to help cover the "cost of research" in his Shadow Cabinet role while Andrew Mitchell, the Shadow Secretary for International Development, received a similar amount.
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, last month received a £10,000 donation to his private office from John Howson, a supporter from Oxford.
Among the new entries are ones detailing donations at the lower end of the scale.
David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, registered receiving a £15 bottle of whisky, two mugs and a pen, valued at £10, a Braille notepad and a £15 bottle of champagne for attending and making speeches at various charity fund-raising events. The whisky was donated to charity.
Susan Kramer, the LibDem MP for Richmond Park, received a £15 bunch of flowers for handing out prizes and giving a speech at a local school.
Tory Ann Widdecombe registered a £25 M&S gift voucher for a speaking event and a £66 pen for another.
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