MPs report the summary totals of their expenses once a year. You can review the data yourself [PDF] for the most recent year for which information is available – fiscal 2009, also known as the 12-month period ending on March 31, 2009. This is the only document provided by the Board of Internal Economy, the nine-MP committee that meets in secret to supervise the expenditure of more than $500 million a year associated with the operations of the House of Commons and the Library of Parliament.
What I've done is take the Member's Expenditure's Report and dumped the data in that PDF into a spreadsheet so that I can present some comparisons and analysis. This is one of several posts with some of those summaries and analyses.
Member's Office Budget: Telephone
The central budget for the House of Commons may be charged by MPs for the following under Telephone: “four lines, one fax line and one toll-free number for the primary constituency office telephone services and long-distance charges; a maximum of four wireless devices and services with three voice plans and one data plan.”
Because there was a general election in the middle of this fiscal year, not every MP served for the full fiscal year. Among those that did serve the entire 12 months, the average expenditure on MOB-Advertising was: $7,594.
Here's the top 20 biggest-spending MPs in this category:
- Maria Mourani (CPC) – Ahuntsic $34,205
- Deepak Obhrai (CPC) – Calgary East $28,543
- Patrick Brown (CPC) – Barrie $23,685
- Sukh Dhaliwal (LPC) – Newton-North Delta $23,530
- Russ Hiebert (CPC) – South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale $23,148
- Glen Pearson (LPC) – London North Centre $22,782
- Ruby Dhalla (LPC) – Brampton-Springdale $21,553
- Mark Holland (LPC) – Ajax-Pickering $20,874
- Dean Allison (CPC) – Niagara West-Glanbrook $20,212
- Irwin Cotler (LPC) – Mount Royal $19,653
- Mario Silva (LPC) – Davenport $19,487
- Rob Clarke (CPC) – Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River $19,294
- Bob Rae (LPC) – Toronto Centre $19,253
- Maria Minna (LPC) – Beaches-East York $19,074
- Thomas Mulcair (NDP) – Outremont $19,032
- Rodger Cuzner (LPC) – Cape Breton-Canso $18,935
- Helena Guergis (IND) – Simcoe-Grey $18,931
- Gord Brown (CPC) – Leeds-Grenville $18,900
- Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac (BQ) – Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot $18,899
- Maurizio Bevilacqua (LPC) – Vaughan $18,135
And here's the bottom 20, starting with the MP who spent the least amount in this category: 
- Peter Milliken (LPC) – Kingston and the Islands $4,308
- Jean-Yves Roy (BQ) – Haute-Gaspésie-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia $4,470
- Garry Breitkreuz (CPC) – Yorkton-Melville $4,983
- Ed Komarnicki (CPC) – Souris-Moose Mountain $5,230
- Raynald Blais (BQ) – Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine $5,647
- Rick Casson (CPC) – Lethbridge $5,692
- Stephen Harper (CPC) – Calgary Southwest $6,052
- Marc Lemay (BQ) – Abitibi-Témiscamingue $6,086
- Greg Thompson (CPC) – New Brunswick Southwest $6,105
- Réal Ménard (BQ) – Hochelaga $6,265
- Mario Laframboise (BQ) – Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel $6,402
- Gordon O'Connor (CPC) – Carleton-Mississippi Mills $6,430
- Alex Atamanenko (NDP) – British Columbia Southern Interior $6,492
- Gilles Duceppe (BQ) – Laurier-Sainte-Marie $6,558
- Shawn Murphy (LPC) – Charlottetown $6,618
- Francis Scarpaleggia (LPC) – Lac-Saint-Louis $6,784
- Louis Plamondon (BQ) – Bas-Richelieu-Nicolet-Bécancour $6,966
- Chuck Strahl (CPC) – Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon $7,055
- Todd Russell (LPC) – Labrador $7,149
- Ralph Goodale (LPC) – Wascana $7,171