The value of “gifts, benefits and hospitality” declared by MPs was £1.3m in 2023, analysis shows, up from £483,507 in 2021. And the amount of gifts increased to 768 from 337 during the same period.

But the sum total of gifts will be even higher because the figures do not include those received by ministers, who are not required to declare them on the register of MPs’ interests. Nor does it factor in interest-free seven-figure loans made to parliamentarians.

Figures show that almost half of all the donations accepted by MPs since 2010 were given in the last two years. They included tickets for football matches and concerts, badges for horse race meetings, honorary club memberships, helicopter rides and payment of legal fees.

The MP who had declared the most gifts and hospitality items since 2010 was Laurence Robertson, the former Tory MP for Tewkesbury, who lost his seat at the last election. He accepted 88 gifts worth £81,913.53. Forty-nine of those came from betting companies, with a further 32 coming from horse racing companies.