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’.

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

  • 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.

  • Sir Oliver Letwin and his wife receive income from letting out a property in London.

The West Dorset MP has also been vice president of the Great Britain China Centre since February this year, an organisation funded by the FCO to promote relationships between the two countries. The role is unpaid but includes travel to China which is paid for by the centre.

Since April he has also been chairman of a cross-party Brexit think-tank. Again, the role is unpaid and the group, the Management Board of hte Red Tape Initiative, aims to identify regulatory changes that can be made by political consensus speedily after Brexit.

  • North Dorset MP Simon Hoare earned £400 for two hours' work completing a survey for market research company IPSOS Mori. He paid the fee he received directly to charity.

In April he went on a parlimentary fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia.

The register also notes he employs his wife as a part-time constituency caseworker, and that she is paid from parlimentary expenses.

He is also a trustee of Bowel and Cancer Research, which is an unpaid role.

  • 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.