MPs and expenses

2. Gerry Adams and four other Sinn Fein
MPs claimed more than £500,000 over
five years even though they refuse to
attend Parliament

3. Douglas Alexander spent more than
£30,000 doing up his constituency
home – which then suffered damage in
a house fire.

4. Ed Balls and wife Yvette Cooper
“flipped” the designation of their
second home to three different
properties within two years

5. Margaret Beckett made a £600 claim
for hanging baskets and pot plants

6. Tony Blair re-mortgaged his
constituency home and claimed almost
a third of the interest around the time
he was buying another property in
London

7. Hazel Blears did not pay capital gains
tax on a property she sold despite
having told the Commons authorities it
was her second home. She has since
agreed to paid the tax but denied any
wrongdoing.

8. Gordon Brown's house swap let the PM
claim thousands

9. David Cameron limited his claims to
mortgage interest payments and utility
bills.

10. Alistair Darling's stamp duty was paid
by the public

11. Shahid Malik claimed £66,000 on his
second property while paying less than
£100 a week for his main house. He
has resigned as justice minister
pending an investigation

12. Michael Martin used taxpayers' money
to pay for chauffeur-driven cars to his
local job centre and Celtic's football
ground

13. Jack Straw only paid half the amount of
council tax that he claimed on his
parliamentary allowances over four
years but later rectified the over-claim

14. George Osborne was rebuked by the
Commons authorities for using public
money to fund his quot;politicalquot; website.

15. Kenneth Clarke managed to avoid
paying the full rate of council tax on
either of his two homes by effectively
claiming that neither is his main
residence.

16. GOD SAVE
THE QUEEN