The Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and the Assistant Immigration Minister Michaelia Cash have spent nearly $120,000 monitoring the media for mentions of their names and the immigration portfolio, eclipsing cabinet colleagues including Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.

According to documents from the House of Representatives, Mr Morrison spent $62,484.30 in media monitoring and print clipping services, while Michaelia Cash, the assistant minister for Immigration spent $54,788.16 from September 7, 2013 and September 3, 2014. This includes monitoring newspaper clippings, television and radio transcripts through the Australian Associated Press and the media company iSentia.

Media monitor: Immigration Minister Scott Morrison. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

This is in contrast to Ms Bishop whose office spent $6728.69 on media clippings between September 7, 2013 to September 17, 2014. According to separate documents Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews spent $2619.33 between September 1, 2013 to July 31 this year.

Labor MP Pat Conroy, who is chair of Labor's Waste Watch Committee, said it was ironic that the most "secretive minister in the history of the Commonwealth" was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars monitoring what the media was saying about him.