AN MP is to register a 2007 overseas trip with the House of Commons after it was discovered the excursion was not listed.

Rossendale and Darwen member Janet Anderson said an 'oversight' was to blame for an error which meant she never registered a trip to Taiwan which was paid for by the Asian country’s government.

Mrs Anderson accompanied Pendle MP Gordon Prentice to the Far East in October 2007, but failed to register the trip in her House of Commons register of interests as rules dictate.

However, Mr Prentice did register the trip, stating it was paid for by the Taiwanese government, and later spoke about it in the Commons, mentioning that he had been accompanied by Mrs Anderson.

Mrs Anderson had registered an earlier trip to Taiwan in January 2006.

She had not asked any questions about Taiwan in parliament.

Mrs Anderson said: “To the best of my recollection, I have visited Taiwan twice as part of a parliamentary delegation.

“Once in January 2006 and again, indeed as Gordon mentioned in his speech, in 2007.

“I had thought I had registered both of these trips but clearly, if the second is not registered, then this is an oversight on my part which I shall seek to rectify at the earliest opportunity.”

Meanwhile, a spokesman for Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans said he had not needed to declare a trip to India in August 2009, paid for by its government, in four House of Commons questions involving the country.

The spokesman said Mr Evans would only have to declare the trip if he was lobbying, not merely mentioning India in passing.

Last week the BBC claimed 20 MPs, none of whom were from East Lancashire, had broken rules by going on overseas trips and then asking questions about the countries in parliament without declaring an interest.