The South West Norfolk MP, who has announced he is to stand down at the next general election to care for his ill wife, claimed £2,405.39 for the conversion of a horsetrailer into a mobile office in 2006 – and then a £12 claim for a portrait of the Queen to hang in that office.

Among subsequent related claims to the mobile office was a receipt for superglue, hooks, a Dutch vase and candles.

Previously, the Daily Telegraph revealed Mr Fraser claimed £1,800 for buy 215 trees for his second home – and had named a property in Dorset as his main home.

The publication of his claims on the House of Commons' website also reveals that in January 2007, he claimed for £875.32 for the building of a fence.

There are claims for several months running for £602.83 in 2005 – those claims were made under the title of 'other' with the detailed parts blacked out.

The online publication of expenses also reveals that Mr Fraser claimed for £2,400 in petty cash in March 2008 – a claim he said was for 12 months' worth of 'out of pocket' expenses.

Mr Fraser has already put many of his own expenses on his website.

He said: "I believe in transparency and am happy for these claims to be in the public domain."

He added that the information that had been blacked by the House of Commons in accordance with data protection and was of personal not financial information.

Mr Fraser said he had not claimed for furniture, white goods, professional fees or stamp duty and had not flipped homes.

He said the fencing and trees were for security after finding intruders in his garden and that he spent £500 replacing some of the trees that did not survive and did not claim back that cost or the cost of security gates he had installed.

"All my claims were approved by the House authorities and were always put forward within the spirit and letter of the rules," he added.


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