Disgraced former Queensland MP Scott Driscoll has been sentenced to at least 18 months' jail for 15 fraud-related offences.

Driscoll, 41, pleaded guilty to the charges in the Brisbane District Court last November.

He was handed a sentence of six years and will not be eligible for parole until September 2018.

Driscoll defrauded the Queensland Retail Traders and Shopkeepers Association of almost $180,000, falsified meeting minutes and sought secret commissions from two major supermarket chains.

The court heard the group was paid $110,000 to fight a change to extended trading hours, but that money was fraudulently used by Driscoll who put some toward a house deposit.

He then used his position as an MP to try and solicit between $200,000 and $300,000 from Coles and Woolworths to change the lobby group's stance on trading hours.

Both supermarkets declined to make the payment.

Another $60,000 from the sale of a QRTSA property was also used by Driscoll.

Of that, $54,000 was donated to the LNP and $5,000 was used for personal expenses.

None of the money has ever been recovered.

Mental state taken into account

Judge Deborah Richards said Driscoll was in a "significant position of trust" when the offences occurred.

"This position of trust enabled you to continue the fraud offences," Judge Richards said.

The court was told Driscoll was now severely depressed and relied on his wife Emma as a full-time carer.

In sentencing she took his mental state into account.

Driscoll won Redcliffe for the LNP in 2012 but became an independent when the party lost confidence in him in March 2013.

He initially remained as an independent MP, but was absent from Parliament for several sitting weeks and eventually resigned from his seat in November 2013, citing poor health.

His resignation came after Parliament's ethics committee recommended he be expelled and his seat declared vacant.