Justice Minister Shahid Malik has stepped down pending investigation following reports that Mr Malik had run up the highest expenses claim of any MP, claiming second home allowances of £66,827 over three years on his house in London. At the same time his main home was a three-bedroom house in his Dewsbury constituency which he had secured for a discounted rent of less than £100 a week.
One of the most well known faces to be caught up in the scandal, former Cabinet member Claire Short was paid £8,000 too much after claiming for her full mortgage payments despite only being entitled to the interest.
Elliot Morley, a former government minister, is one of the few MPs so far to pay the price for his 'errors of judgement'. He was suspended after it was revealed he claimed more than £16,000 for mortgage interest on his second home in his Scunthorpe constituency for 18 months after the loan had been paid off.
Tory MP Andrew MacKay apologised 'profusely' after resigning as David Cameron's Parliamentary aide over his expenses claims. The Bracknell MP said he had made an 'error of judgment' on his second homes claims after the Tory leader described them as 'unacceptable'.
With MPs from all parties hit by the leaked details of their expenses claims, public outrage at politicians' abuse of taxpayers' money is at an all-time high. The scandal reaches to the very top, with Prime Minister Gordon Brown getting in hot water for a payment of more than £6,000 to his EDF Energy executive brother - for cleaning his London flat.
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Chancellor Alistair Darling is meant to be sorting out the UK's faltering economy, though he seems to have done rather better sorting out his own finances, switching which property should be considered his "main home" four times in four years, allowing him to claim £10,000 in stamp duty from the taxpayer.
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband has spent nearly £30,000 on repairs, decoration and furnishings for his £120,000 constituency home over a five year period, it is claimed. This included keeping a gardener at the small property - a gardener who challenged the expense of the work he was carrying out in a note on the bottom of one of his invoices.
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As Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears is in charge of housing policy. She has now agreed to pay back more than £13,000 in capital gains tax that she managed to avoid by playing the system, telling the taxman that a property she sold was her main home, thus avoiding the charges.
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Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott may have a reputation for being a no-nonsense man's man, but that didn't stop him from asking the taxpayer to fork out for decorative mock-Tudor beams to be added to the front of his house. He may also be due a new nickname - formerlly dubbed "Two Jags" after it was revealed that he owned two luxury cars, he may well now be known as "Two loos" after claiming for two lavatory seats in the space of two years.
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Another MP with a reputation for being a hard man is former Home Secretary John Reid, once dubbed "New Labour's rottweiler" for his no-nonsense, often aggressive attitude. His tough guy image will have taken a beating after claims for a £199 pouff, oven mitts and a glittery toilet seat have become public.
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