EAST Lancashire's lone Tory MP Nigel Evans has been dropped from having free membership of Peter Stringfellow's London club.

Mr Evans said he had only been to the club once in the last year and thought Peter Stringfellow did not believe it was worth renewing his membership.

In recent years the Tory Welsh affairs spokesman has accepted complimentary membership of Mr Stringfellows London hangout for the rich and famous.

But in the latest edition of the register of MPs' interests, the first since June's general election, the perk has disappeared.

He said: "If I had been invited again I would have renewed my membership as it's quite impressive to tell people you are a member there."

Mr Evans remains a complimentary member of the gym at the former County Hall, opposite Parliament on the other side of the Thames, thanks to Whitbreads who own the Samlesbury brewery in his Ribble Valley constituency.

Foreign Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw continues to declare rent and income from offices in Blackburn.

But in addition he also declares that more than a quarter of his expenses at the 2001 general election were made by former council leader Lord Taylor of Blackburn and that on February 16 Amstrad presented him with an e-mail machine for use in his constituency office as part of a neighbourhood watch initiative he launched as Home Secretary.

Burnley MP Peter Pike declares seats and hospitality at Turf Moor thanks to Burnley FC of which he is a small shareholder, sponsor, Clarets Foundation member and fund raiser.

He made two overseas trips, one to South Africa for a human rights, HIV/AIDS conference paid for by the European Parliamentarians for Africa organisation and one to Pakistan and Kashmir with the town's mayor and mayoress, paid for by the Burnley Pakistan Association and Pakistani government organisations.

He receives under £2,000 for his membership of two parliamentary opinion panels, the fees for which are paid to Burnley Labour Party or local charities.

Hyndburn Labour MP Greg Pope, Pendle's Gordon Prentice and Rossendale and Darwen's Janet Anderson all make no returns.

Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans also declares ownership of a Swansea newsagents, occasional lecturing to overseas students, a shareholding of between £1,000 and £5,000 in News.MAX.com, a business news service company, for which he acts as a consultant and membership of the boards of advisers to Telecom company Mansat Ltd for which he receives a small shareholding.

He is an unpaid director of the Small Business Bureau and receives six months' free line rental and installation of an ADSL fast link telephone line from British Telecom in his House of Commons office.

He also declares ad hoc TV and radio interviews, a trip to the Paris air show as part of the parliamentary space committee and a fact finding visit to China.

Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle registers two visits in September 2000 and 2001 to Gibraltar as a guest of the government, a rental income from a commercial leasehold property at Adlington in his constituency and a shareholding in printing company Screen Arts Ltd.

South Ribble MP David Borrow makes a nil entry.

Prime Minister Tony Blair registers two trips with his family to rugby internationals at Twickenham while new Tory leader Ian Duncan Smith lists extensive contributions to his campaign to get the job and unpaid research assistance from visiting students.