Two county MPs – Nigel Evans and Lindsay Hoyle – have just returned from an official parliamentary trip to the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.

Other destinations for local MPs have or are to include official trips to Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and private trips to Spain, Italy and Ireland.

Mr Evans and Mr Hoyle, who sit on the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Cayman Islands, formed part of a six-member delegation which returned home this week.

The MPs experienced temperatures of 32C (90F) over six days as they toured galleries, tasted local food and learned about Caymanian history.

They also held meetings with island officials, discussing issues such as its educational system and a recent hurricane.

The trip was paid for by Cayman Islands government. The trip follows months of controversy surrounding MPs expenses.

Mark Wallace, campaign director of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said "fact-finding" trips like these concerned him.

He said: "I think MPs should search their own consciences before going on these trips.

"I think some parliamentary trips don't have value."

But Mr Evans said: "The only way you can see the problems that the islands face is if you go and see it for yourself."

The Conservative MP revealed he would be travelling to Malaysia later in the year.

Mr Hoyle, who last spoke in the House of Commons on the issue of sunbeds, said visiting the islands would help him "voice the Caymanian perspective" in the UK Parliament when matters were raised.

Meanwhile, South Ribble MP David Borrow has visited Iraq and Afghanistan over the last six weeks along with other members of the House of Commons' Defence Select Committee, which he said funded the trips.

He has also visited Malawi, funded by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and is due to holiday for two weeks with his partner in Spain in September.

But he told the Lancashire Evening Post he was still working in his office dealing with large amounts of paperwork.

Fylde MP Michael Jack said he was only planning to go away to Tuscany on a personal holiday.

Morecambe and Lunesdale MP Geraldine Smith said she would be spending most of her time in her constituency with no plans to go abroad.

Rosie Cooper, MP for West Lancashire, said: "During the summer recess I'll be, as ever, working in the constituency.

"However, I'll be going to Cork for the weekend soon and I am also using the break from Parliament to look after my 83-year-old dad who has recently had a stroke."

Lancaster MP Ben Wallace was unavailable – he is on a trip to Iran as part of his role as chairman of the British-Iranian All-Party Parliamentary Group.

Preston MP Mark Hendrick was unavailable.

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