MP CONOR Burns twice received £6,250 for just 18 hours work as a consultant for the Quantum Group development company, the latest Parliamentary figures show.

These payments, from May and August last year, translate to nearly £350 per hour.

Bournemouth-based Quantum Group specialises in property development, care operations and fund management.

The Conservative Bournemouth West MP also took home £10,000 quarterly for 10 hours work per month for the Southampton firm Trant Engineering Ltd.

Parliament’s latest Register of Members’ Financial Interests, which lists any benefit an MP receives, is regularly published to provide transparency about any financial interest which ‘others might reasonably consider to influence his or her actions or words’.

Mr Burns also listed trips to Israel, in August 2016, courtesy of the Conservative Friends of Israel; and to Bahrain, February 2017, courtesy of the Kingdom of Bahrain. His Israel trip, costing £2,000 for flights and accommodation, was carried out as part of a fact-finding delegation.

The Bahrain visit, costing £2,800 for flights and accommodation, took place because Mr Burns is chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Bahrain.

The document, available online, sheds light on the finances, donors, foreign trips and property portfolios of all Dorset MPs.

Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood lists ongoing service in the territorial army as a payment on the register.

Other entries of note include a Saudi Arabia visit, donated by the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and two payments of £200 for completing surveys - which Mr Ellwood donated to charity.

Christchurch MP Christopher Chope is listed as a director of Carclew Limited, a small private company providing business consultancy services that do not include advice on parliamentary or public affairs. The register also shows his wife Christine is employed as his secretary and paid from parliamentary expenses. How much she is paid is unknown.

South Dorset MP Richard Drax is listed as director of Morden Estates Company Limited, the firm managing a number of family-owned properties.

Mr Drax’s entry on the register states: “Since October 1, 2014, accommodation at a property in Dorset has been provided to me with an annual value of £47,000 per annum.”

“I received no other remuneration from this company.”

Mr Drax is also listed as a shareholder in Morden Estates Company Ltd, Abbots Court Farm Company (Holdings) Limited, and AMF Co Holdings Ltd.

Meanwhile, New Forest MP Desmond Swayne has declared a visit to Taiwan, donated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, on the register. Mr Swayne was part of a delegation from the All Party Parliamentary Group for Taiwan.

Mr Swayne also lists his wife, Moira, as his secretary.

Poole MP Robert Syms lists the property company Marden Holdings as a shareholding interest, while Mid Dorset & North Poole MP Michael Tomlinson lists more than £14,000 for legal services on the register, and he was also part of a parliamentary delegation which travelled to Israel in September 2016.

Mr Tomlinson also employs his wife, Frances Mynors, as his principal secretary.