Thanks for your replies thus far.
Re clearances. We receive a clearance at the start of the day under an agreement from Swanwick where we are given a squark & frequency. Don't know if this counts as a clearance per say.
On some flights I am flying in IMC for some portion of the flight so I guess I can log this, but it seems the feeling on logging say 40% of each flight is a bit rich!
I certainly don't want to claim for something incorrectly.
How did people who got into Air Taxi get the P1 IFR time that is often quoted as a minimum?