Which UK MPs declared hospitality or trips funded by CFI or LFI in the past parliament, by name and date?
Executive summary
The public record needed to answer this question exists but the supplied reporting does not include a complete, named, dated roster of MPs who declared hospitality or trips paid for by Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) or Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) during the last Parliament; the parliamentary Register of Members’ Financial Interests and derived databases are the authoritative sources for those entries [1] [2]. Investigative reporting by Declassified and summaries repeated in other outlets say CFI funded scores of Conservative MPs and LFI funded dozens of Labour MPs on parliamentary visits, but the present sources link to a list rather than reproducing the full name-and-date entries needed to answer the question directly [3] [4] [5].
1. The records that would contain the names and dates — and why they matter
Every MP must register gifts, hospitality and visits where relevant; the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards publishes those registers and splits interests into categories that include “visits outside the UK” and “gifts, benefits and hospitality” — these registers are the legal, granular source for which MP accepted what, from whom and when [1] [2]. The House of Commons guidance explains MPs’ obligations to register and declare interests in parliamentary proceedings, and the registers are routinely published and updated by the Commissioner’s office [6] [7]. Any definitive answer therefore depends on extracting entries labelled as visits or hospitality in that official register for the 2019–2024 Parliament (or the “past parliament” the user means) [2].
2. What investigative reporting has already claimed, and its limits
Declassified’s investigation — cited and summarized in other outlets — reports that CFI funded travel for scores of Conservative MPs (reporting “118 sitting Conservative MPs” on 160 occasions and over £330,000 towards visits) and that LFI funded visits for dozens of Labour MPs (reporting “32 of Labour’s current MPs” and over £64,000) [4] [3] [5]. Those figures show scale but, in the materials provided here, the piece points readers to a downloadable list rather than embedding a fully itemised register of named MPs with dates; therefore the supplied reporting cannot, on its own, be used to produce the per-MP, per-date list requested [3] [4].
3. How to produce the authoritative named-and-dated list
The correct method is to consult the Register of Members’ Financial Interests (section for visits and gifts) maintained by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and to extract entries where the declared sponsor is CFI, LFI, or named donors associated with those groups [1] [2]. Third‑party tools and datasets exist to simplify this: the Register Explorer built from the register API and aggregated spreadsheets such as those on theyworkforyou or the RMFI visualisation can be queried for “Conservative Friends of Israel”, “Labour Friends of Israel” or specific trip descriptions to produce a table of MP name + trip/hospitality description + date [8] [2]. The register’s rules require MPs to enter visits where the cost is over specified thresholds, which makes the entries comparable and, when cited, defensible [9].
4. Transparency, ambiguity and competing narratives
Journalistic summaries that emphasize scale (for example, “a quarter of MPs” received funding from pro‑Israel lobby actors) reflect an important finding about reach but can conflate membership, donation receipts and hospitality trips unless they publish or link to the underlying register lines [3] [4]. CFI and LFI are parliamentary groups that do not always disclose funding sources publicly; investigators therefore rely on MPs’ registered entries and occasional internal lists to map payments and trips — an approach that is rigorous only when the primary register entries are cited directly [4] [5]. Independent transparency advocates and the parliamentary rules together provide the mechanism to validate individual name-and-date claims [7] [2].
5. Practical next step to get the exact names and dates
To obtain the precise per‑MP list sought: query the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards’ Register of Members’ Financial Interests for the period of the past Parliament and filter entries in categories 3 (gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources) and 4 (visits outside the UK) for sponsors or descriptions containing “Conservative Friends of Israel”, “CFI”, “Labour Friends of Israel” or “LFI”; alternatively, download the datasets used by Declassified (they linked to their list) and cross‑check each entry against the official register to confirm dates and exact wording [3] [1] [2]. The reporting provided here confirms the scale of those visits but does not itself publish the per‑MP, per‑date register lines necessary to answer the question in the requested format [3] [4].