DONATIONS totalling £22,600 were registered by the MP for East Hampshire Damian Hinds in 2015.

According to the latest government figures, the sums donated to the MP last year included £3,100 to help pay for a constituency dinner from former East?Meon councillor David Parkinson, who was also previously leader of East Hampshire District Council.

Mr Parkinson also handed over a further £3,500 in late 2015, while international industrialist Damon De Laszlo made two donations of £2,500 to Mr Hinds.

The latest register of MPs’ financial interests also shows that Mr Hinds received an educational allowance of £5,116, plus accommodation, from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales to support an intern in his parliamentary office.

Meon Valley MP George Hollingbery has a much shorter entry in the register with outside income including a £5,000 donation from Philip Gwyn and rent from a pair of Cornish properties.

He is also a director of the Spey Fishing Trust and an unpaid director of Enxray Ltd, a firm which designs sterilisation equipment for the life sciences industry.

The entry for Andrew Tyrie, MP for Chichester, is very brief with the Conservative declaring an honorary membership of Goodwood Country Club.

The only other declaration is support for staff costs, travel and other expenses incurred as chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition.

MPs’ expenses and the donations they receive are published annually, after being studied by an all-party Parliamentry watchdog group.

In 2009 it was revealed in a series of national newspaper revelations that some MPs were claiming expenses for items and services to which they were not entitled.

Mr Hinds, Mr Hollingberry and Mr Tyrie weren’t involved in the scandal.