TORY MP Nigel Evans has been give a free membership of the famous Stringfellows nightclub in London - the haunt of Page Three models and soap opera actresses.

This fact about the Ribble Valley member and Tory Constitutional spokesman is revealed in the Register of Members' Interests for the new House of Commons just published. The gift from its Northern-born owner Peter Stringfellow is the highlight of the longest entry in the document from an East Lancashire MP.

Mr Evans also records a trip to China paid for by that country's Communist government.

As last year, he registers the ownership of the family newsagents and convenience store in his Swansea home town, membership of the Harris Parliamentary Opinion panel - he gives the fee to local schools - and the loan of computers from the Small Business Bureau and a vehicle for occasional constituency use from Walker Farrimond.

The Chinese trip replaces last year's visits to Madrid, Gibraltar, Cyprus and the United States.

Another casualty of the change of government seems to be free attendance at the FA Cup Final.

Last year Mr Evans got two tickets from Littlewoods but this year new Home Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw got three from the Football Association while his Tory colleague missed out. Mr Straw has the second longest listing, also registering two FA tickets to a Wembley international. The free soccer matches replace last year's two trips to the Royal Opera House paid for by financial institutions.

He declares pre-election cash and equipment assistance from Mr P. Carter, the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (more than £10,000) and the Labour Front Bench Research Fund.

The Cabinet Minister also declares rent income from offices in Blackburn but no longer claims to be a non-practising barrister or earning cash from writing, broadcasting and lecturing.

Rossendale and Darwen MP Janet Anderson's job as Number Four in the government Whips Office, acting as the official Commons and government link to the Queen, has cost her outside interests as an adviser to the Royal College of Nursing and her constituency Labour party the income from her paid post as public affairs consultant to Safeway Stores which employs her husband Vince as a corporate lawyer.

She has also given up occasional journalism and her paid membership of the political opinion panel of Business Planning and Research International (BPRI).

Her fellow Whip, Hyndburn MP Greg Pope, gives up the same work - and a similar job for the Harris Parliamentary Panel - as well as occasional journalism to join Pendle MP Gordon Prentice in declaring nothing.

Burnley MP Peter Pike pays cash from both panels to his constituency Labour Party or charities again but no longer receives election expenses cash from the GMB Union.

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