Breakdown of some of his 2007/8 expenses: Incidental expenses

  • £65 for accommodation on an extended trip, but has blanked out the information saying where he was visiting.
  • £50.17 to clear blocked drains
  • £418 for car travel, although again there are no details of where the trips were from or to.
  • £1,302 on landline and mobile phone charges
  • £138 on teabags, coffee and other "office requisites", although a 58p entry on a receipt for doughnuts was crossed off.
  • £420.50 on train travel, although there are no details of where and when trips were made
  • £164.50 to his party for placing two adverts in Lib Dem News hunting for an office manager and researcher
  • £70.57 on the office fax bill
  • £8,502 on office rent

Additional allowance expenses

  • £135.50 TV licence
  • £384.12 building and contents insurance
  • £155.56 phone bills
  • £177.85 electricity bills
  • £81.50 water bills
  • £720.24 cleaning
  • £1577.18 council tax
  • £149.24 gardening
  • £257.49 maintenance (bleeding radiators, making up a bedside cabinet, changing an outside light, fixing extractor fan and dimmer switch)