The prime minister has an outstanding court judgment for a debt of £535.

A search of the county court judgments database shows the ‘unsatisfied record’ registered to Boris Johnson at ’10 Downing Street’.

There are no details of who the money is owed to, nor of what it is for.

First revealed by the Private Eye magazine, the debt is dated to October 26 last year, meaning it is now at least six months overdue.

The judgment was issued less than a fortnight after a Conservative donor told the party he was donating £58,000 to the party in relation to refurbishments at Mr Johnson’s Downing Street flat.

Records of judgments are kept for six years unless the full amount is paid within a month – and they can make it hard to get credit.

The Prime Minister has faced questions about his finances as the Electoral Commission investigates whether any donation was properly declared.

He has denied any wrongdoing and insisted he personally paid for the lavish refurbishments, but has declined to say whether he received an initial loan.

Scrutiny intensified when former aide Dominic Cummings accused Mr Johnson of wanting donors to ‘secretly pay’ for the renovations to the apartment in a ‘possibly illegal’ move.

Tory peer Lord Brownlow said in an email leaked to the Daily Mail and dated October 14 that he was making a £58,000 donation to the Conservatives ‘to cover the payments the party has already made on behalf of the soon-to-be-formed “Downing Street Trust”‘.

No 10 is yet to respond to a request for comment on the court judgment.

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