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List of what MPs have now been told to pay back

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Wednesday 14 October 2009 04:26 EDT
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These are the MPs who have so far disclosed all or part of the content of letters received from Sir Thomas Legg, as a result of his inquiry into additional cost allowances claimed between 2004/05 and 2008/09.

LABOUR

* Ed Balls (Lab, Normanton) and Yvette Cooper (Lab, Pontefract), who are married, are to repay £13.50 each because of a "miscalculation" of interest claims on their joint mortgage in 2006/07. Ms Cooper will also meet a request to provide additional mortgage documentation for 2004/05.

* Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Immediately offered to repay £12,415.10 assessed as being in excess of criteria being applied by Sir Thomas, made up of £10,716.60 for cleaning (including domestic cleaning, window cleaning, dry-cleaning and laundry); £302.50 for gardening; and £1,396 for a decorating bill that was claimed for twice.

* Liam Byrne (Birmingham Hodge Hill) is to repay £1,860.54 for a phone bill which was submitted on the wrong claim form and for letting agency charges.

* Alistair Darling (Edinburgh SW). Agreed to repay £554 towards the cost of a chest of drawers. The Chancellor was also asked for proof of mortgage interest payments on his second home.

* David Kidney (Stafford) was said to have supplied "further information regarding rental agreements" which the review requested.

* Shahid Malik (Dewsbury). Asked for no repayment or further information.

* Business Secretary Lord Mandelson is paying back £800 for tree surgery work in the garden of his constituency home in 2004, when he was MP for Hartlepool.

* David Miliband (South Shields). Agreed to repay £434 "following a bureaucratic error over a mortgage interest payment back in 2004".

* Ed Miliband (Doncaster North). Has been told he has nothing to repay, a spokeswoman said.

* Malcolm Wicks (Croydon North). Has been told he has nothing to pay.

* Justice Secretary Jack Straw (Blackburn) is returning £600 after it emerged that an error led to him being paid the same money twice in 2004.

CONSERVATIVE

* Tory leader David Cameron. Agreed to supply information regarding £218.91 in mortgage over-claims blamed, when they emerged earlier this year, on "an inadvertent administrative error" arising from changes to his home loan arrangements. The Opposition leader had already repaid the sum in June.

* Greg Clarke (Tunbridge Wells). Has been asked to provide more information about his claims.

* Ken Clarke (Rushcliffe). Has been asked to pay back £4,733 he claimed for gardening and cleaning, although he is in discussion with Sir Thomas's office on the exact sum that will need to be returned.

* Nadine Dorries (Mid Beds). Asked to repay £241 for a BT bill claimed in 2006. She disputed she had been paid the amount twice.

* Mark Francois (Rayleigh). Has been told he faces no further questions and has nothing to repay.

* Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham). Has been asked to repay £1,184.23 in mortgage payments.

* Michael Gove (Surrey Heath). Has been told he faces no further questions and has nothing to repay.

* Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell). Has been asked to provide more information about his claims.

* Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield). Has been asked to provide more information about his claims.

* William Hague (Richmond). Has been asked to repay £642.78 in respect of a mortgage overpayment.

* Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge). Has been told he faces no further questions and has nothing to repay.

* Douglas Hogg (Sleaford and North Hykeham). Not asked for repayment. Asked to supply Legg with further information, but Mr Hogg did not disclose any details of the request.

* Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey). Has been asked to provide more information about his claims.

* Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire). Has been asked to repay £1,782.22.

* Oliver Letwin (West Dorset). Has been asked to repay £613.70 claimed for service and maintenance, including £458.70 claimed for a burst water tank.

* Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire). Has been asked to return £4,058.24 which he claimed for cleaning and his mortgage.

* Francis Maude (Horsham). Has been asked to provide more information about his claims.

* Theresa May (Maidenhead). Has been told she faces no further questions and has nothing to repay.

* George Osborne (Tatton). Asked to provide copies of his mortgage interest statements.

* Owen Paterson (North Shropshire). Has been asked to repay £911.21 claimed for repairs, insurance, security and mortgage.

* Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar). Has been asked to pay £300 claimed for cleaning.

* Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield). Has been told he faces no further questions and has nothing to repay.

* Caroline Spelman (Meriden). Has been asked to repay £2,400 claimed in office costs.

* Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet). Has been told she faces no further questions and has nothing to repay.

* David Willetts (Havant). Has been asked to provide more information about his claims.

* Sir George Young (North West Hampshire). Has been asked to repay £104.68 claimed for utilities.

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

* Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. Immediately repaid £910 in gardening costs.

SNP

* Stewart Hosie (Dundee East). Repaying £379 for hotel costs claimed in February 2009 when his flat flooded and was uninhabitable, and which he should have reclaimed from his insurance.

* Angus MacNeil (Western Isles). Repaying a partial council tax bill of £133 for 2007/08. Also seeking "clarification" from Sir Thomas about hotel stays in Glasgow, incurred en route to his Island constituency.

* Angus Robertson (Moray). The SNP's Westminster leader agreed to repay £1,217 for a sofa bed and DVD recorder, and is also to provide rental and mortgage statements requested.

* Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan). Agreed to repay £710.88 in removal costs between London and Aberdeenshire when he gave up his rented flat in 2007. Also supplying further information about £2,610 in hotel costs incurred while his rented London flat was unfurnished.

* Mike Weir (Angus). Not been asked for any repayment. He has been asked to provide copies of the rental agreement for the flat he rents.

* Pete Wishart (Perth and N Perthshire). Asked to repay £1,632 in respect of a duplicate claim for flat rental and a utility bill.

DUP

* Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry). Handing back £2,656 in relation to an accommodation cost claim, a service change which was overpaid, and two overpayments of ground rent.

* Jeffrey Donaldson (Lagan Valley). Handing back £1,964 in relation to accommodation costs, mobile phone charges and a service charge.

* William McCrea (South Antrim). Said he would be handing back £5,329 for furniture, duplicated service charges and a TV licence.

* Ian Paisley (North Antrim). Giving back £1,181 which he said related to a payment made by the Fees Office during dissolution.

* Peter Robinson (Belfast East). Asked to repay £299 mortgage interest.

* Iris Robinson (Strangford). Handing back £2,274 relating to furniture and a service charge.

* David Simpson (Upper Bann). Repaying a £400 food claim which he believed was the same amount he had already repaid and he was questioning the accuracy of Sir Thomas's recommendation.

UU

* Lady Sylvia Hermon (North Down). Asked to repay £1,365 after Sir Thomas queried rent on a London flat which was paid twice in the same month by the Fees Office.

SDLP:

* Alasdair McDonnell (South Belfast). Received a letter from Sir Thomas and was not asked to repay anything.

* Mark Durkan (Foyle). Told to pay back £236 relating to the overpayment of council tax in 2006 and his wife's share of a London hotel bill.

SPEAKER

* Speaker John Bercow. Not asked for repayment. Agreed to supply further information relating to his mortgage and said he would immediately repay any money deemed owing as a result of that.

INDEPENDENT

* Derek Conway (Old Bexley and Sidcup), who was expelled from the Conservative Party after being found guilty of overpaying his two sons from the public purse. Told he has nothing to pay.

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