A Tory MP is to retire after admitting he claimed a £1,645 "duck island" on expenses - as two Labour ministers face questions over capital gains tax.
Sir Peter Viggers, whose gardening claims totalled £30,000, is to quit at "the direct request of David Cameron".
This is how other Members of Parliment have been filling their boots at taxpayer's expense:
There are many more.
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, was revealed to have paid his brother for “cleaning services” at his private flat in Westminster.
Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, admitted that he had over-claimed for both his council tax and mortgage bills.
Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, claimed thousands of pounds to improve his constituency home after he had announced his resignation as an MP. He sold the property for a profit of £136,000.
Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, claimed for three different properties in a single year. She spent almost £5,000 on furniture in three months after buying the third flat in an upmarket area of London.
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, spent hundreds of pounds on gardening at his constituency home — leading his gardener to question whether it was necessary to spend the money on pot plants “given [the] relatively short time you’ll be here”.
Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, changed his official “second home” designation four times in four years.
Geoff Hoon, the Transport Secretary, also switched his second home, which allowed him to improve extensively his family home in Derbyshire before buying a London town house also funded by the taxpayer.
Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, made a single expenses claim for more than £16,500 to buy and renovate a new London flat.
Paul Murphy had a new plumbing system installed at taxpayers' expense because the water in the old one was "too hot".
Margaret Beckett made a £600 claim for hanging baskets and pot plants for her constituency home.
Douglas Alexander spent more than £30,000 doing up his constituency home – which then suffered damage in a house fire.
Caroline Flint claimed £14,000 for fees for new flat
Shaun Woodward, the wealthiest member of the Cabinet, received £100,000 to help pay the mortgage interest on a £1.35 million flat
John Prescott claimed for two lavatory seats in two years and had mock Tudor beams attached to the front of his house.
Barbara Follett used £25,000 of taxpayers' money to pay for private security patrols at her home because she said she did not feel safe there
Keith Vaz claimed £75,500 for a second flat near Parliament even though he already lived just 12 miles from Westminster
Phil Hope spent nearly £10,000 a year refurbishing a small London flat.
Greg Barker made a £320,000 profit in just over two years buying and selling a flat the taxpayer had helped pay for
Michael Martin spent more than £1,400 to pay for chauffeur-driven cars to his local job centre and Celtic's football ground
Ben Bradshaw used his allowance to pay the mortgage interest on a flat he owned jointly with his boyfriend
Phil Woolas submitted receipts including comics, nappies and women's clothing as part of his claims for food
Vera Baird claimed the cost of Christmas tree decorations
Margaret Moran switched the address of her second home, allowing her to claim £22,500 to fix a dry rot problem.
Sinn Fein MPs Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Michelle Gildernew, Pat Doherty and Conor Murphy claimed more than £500,000 over five years despite refusing to attend Parliament
John Gummer's gardening, including the removal of moles from his lawn, cost the taxpayer more than £9,000 a year
Stephen Byers claimed more than £125,000 for repairs and maintenance at a London flat owned outright by his partner, where he lives rent-free
John Reid used his allowance to pay for slotted spoons, an ironing board and a glittery loo seat
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
Iain Wright and Tom Watson spent £100,000 of taxpayers' money on the central London flat they once shared
David Willetts, the Conservatives' choice for skills minister, claimed £115 plus VAT for workmen to replace 25 lightbulbs at his second home in west London
Chris Grayling claimed thousands of pounds to renovate a flat in central London even though his constituency home is less than 17 miles from the House of Commons.
Francis Maude claimed almost £35,000 in two years for mortgage interest payments on a London flat when he owned a house just a few hundred yards away.
George Osborne was rebuked by the Commons authorities for using public money to fund his "political" website and also claimed money for a chauffeur-driven car
David Cameron limited his claims to mortgage interest payments and utility bills and made just one maintenance claim - £600 for the removal of wisteria
Oliver Letwin claimed more than £2,000 for a leaking pipe to be replaced under his tennis court
Alan Duncan spent thousands from his allowance on gardening, including repairs to his lawnmower
Andrew Lansley spent more than £4,000 of taxpayers’ money renovating his country home months before he sold it
Michael Gove spent thousands on his London home before "flipping" his Commons allowance to another address and claiming £13,000 in moving costs
David Heathcoat-Amory’s gardener used hundreds of sacks of horse manure and the MP submitted the receipts to Parliament
Michael Spicer claimed for work on his helipad and received thousands of pounds for gardening bills
Stewart Jackson claimed more than £66,000 for his family home, including hundreds of pounds on refurbishing his swimming pool
David Davis spent more than £10,000 of taxpayers’ money on home improvements in four years, including a new £5,700 portico at his home in Yorkshire
Douglas Hogg included with his expenses claims the cost of having the moat cleared, piano tuned and stable lights fixed at his country manor house
Michael Ancram put the cost of having his swimming pool boiler serviced on his parliamentary allowances
Kenneth Clarke managed to avoid paying the full rate of council tax on either of his two homes by effectively claiming that neither was his main residence
Bob Marshall-Andrews claimed £118,000 for expenses at his second home, including stereo equipment, extensive redecoration and a pair of Kenyan carpets
Nick Clegg claimed the maximum allowed under his parliamentary second home allowance
Chris Huhne regularly submits receipts for bus tickets and groceries including pints of milk, fluffy dusters, lavatory rolls and chocolate HobNobs
Lembit Opik had to pay £2,499 for a 42-inch plasma television after purchasing it while Parliament was dissolved
Menzies Campbell hired a top interior designer to refurbish his small flat in central London at taxpayers’ expense, spending nearly £10,000 on scatter cushions, a king-sized bed and a flat-screen television
Elliot Morley claimed parliamentary expenses of more than £16,000 for a mortgage which had already been paid off
John Maples declared a private members’ club as his main home to the parliamentary authorities
Stephen Crabb claimed his “main home” was a room in another MP’s flat, after buying a new house for his family at taxpayers’ expense
Fabian Hamilton declared his mother’s London house as his main residence while over-charging the taxpayer by thousands of pounds for a mortgage on his family home in Leeds
Andrew George claimed parliamentary expenses for a London flat used by his student daughter and also charged taxpayers for hotel stays with his wife
Shahid Malik claimed £66,000 on his second property while paying less than £100 a week for his main house
Clare Short claimed thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to which she was not entitled within months of standing down as a Cabinet minister
Elliot Morley: chief whip Nick Brown knew for 'week or two' about £16,000 claim
James Clappison owns 24 houses but billed more than £100,000, including thousands for gardening and redecoration
Hilary Armstrong was told that allowing the Labour Party to pay for and run a computer at her taxpayer-funded home could make her “politically vulnerable”
Andrew Mackay and his MP wife Julie Kirkbride had 'his and hers' second homes
Alan and Ann Keen claimed almost £40,000 a year on a central London flat although their family home was less than 10 miles away
Ed Balls and wife Yvette Cooper “flipped” the designation of their second home to three different properties within two years
Peter and Iris Robinson both claimed expenses based on the same £1,223 bill when they submitted their parliamentary claims in 2007
Sir Nicholas Winterton and his wife Ann claimed more than £80,000 for a London flat owned by a trust controlled by their children
Margaret Moran, the Labour MP who is repaying £22,500 claimed to treat dry rot, billed the taxpayer for nearly £4,000 in legal fees in settling a dispute with one of her staff
David Chaytor admits claiming almost £13,000 in interest payments for a mortgage that he had already repaid
Sir Gerald Kaufman charged the taxpayer £1,851 for a rug he imported from a New York antiques centre and tried to claim £8,865 for a television
Tam Dalyell attempted to claim £18,000 for bookcases two months before he retired as an MP
Anthony Steen claimed £87,000 on country mansion with 500 trees
Derek Wyatt billed 75p for scotch eggs
Richard Younger-Ross spent £1,235 on four mirrors and bought 'Don Juan’ bookcase
Crispin Blunt told to stop claiming Commons allowance on his home because his children live there
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown “flipped” his second home designation from London to his Gloucestershire home, before buying a £2,750,000 house.
Chris Bryant changed second home twice in two years to claim £20,000
Fraser Kemp, who voted to keep MPs' expenses secret, made repeat purchases of household items over the space of several weeks.
Mike Hall claimed thousands of pounds in expenses for the cost of cleaners, cleaning products and laundry bills for his London home
Liz Blackman went on last-minute shopping sprees before the end of each financial year, in an apparent attempt to make sure she claimed as close to maximum expenses as possible
Joan Ryan spent thousands of pounds on repairs and decorations at her constituency home before switching her designated second home to a London property
David Clelland, who tried to block disclosure of MPs’ second-home spending, claimed for the cost of “buying out” his partner’s £45,000 stake in his London flat
David Maclean spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money renovating a farmhouse before selling it for £750,000
Maria Eagle claimed thousands of pounds on refurbishing a bathroom at one of her flats just months before switching her designated second home to a property with a higher mortgage
David Ruffley claimed for new furniture and fittings after “flipping” his second home from London to a new flat in his constituency
Greg Knight, an MP with a collection of classic cars, claimed £2,600 in expenses for repair work on the driveway at his designated second home
Julian Lewis attempted to claim £6,000 in expenses for a wooden floor at his second home
Ben Chapman: Documents suggest he deliberately over-claimed for mortgage interest on his London house with the permission of an official in the fees office
Ed Vaizey had £2,000 worth of furniture delivered to his London home when he was claiming his Commons allowance on a second home in Oxfordshire
George Mudie claimed £62,000 in expenses for his London flat for four years, which having a mortgage of just £26,000
Madeleine Moon spent thousands in furniture shops near her Welsh constituency and claimed the money back on her London designated second home allowance.
Ruth Kelly has claimed more than £31,000 to redecorate and furnish her designated second home in the past five years.
Robert Syms had £2,000 worth of furniture he claimed on expenses delivered to his parents' home in Wiltshire.
Ian McCartney spent £16,000 furnishing and decorating his second home but paid the money back two years later
John Redwood admitted being paid twice after submitting an identical £3,000 decorating bill on his designated second home.
Claire Ward, the MP responsible for keeping the Queen informed about Parliament, submitted monthly expense claims for hundreds of pounds of "petty cash" while claiming maximum allowances.
Ian Austin split a claim for stamp duty on buying his second home in London into two payments and tried to claim it back over two financial years.
Diana Johnson claimed nearly £1,000 to cover the cost of hiring an architect for a decorating project at her second home
Steve McCabe over-claimed on his mortgage by £4,059 during the course of two years
Dawn Butler, the Labour whip, over-claimed £2,600 in rent on her constituency home.
Patrick McLoughlin, the senior MP asked by David Cameron to scrutinise Tory expenses, claimed £3,000 for new windows at his second home.
Alistair Burt claimed £1,000 too much in expenses for his rent, but was allowed to keep the money.
John Austin claimed more than £10,000 for redecorating his London flat, which was 11 miles from his main home, before selling it for a profit.
Helen Goodman claimed for a week's stay in a cottage in her constituency over a bank holiday
Jim Devine bought Michael Connarty's furniture on expenses
James Gray successfully claimed £2,000 for the future redecoration of his “second home” on the day that he moved out.
Phil Willis spent thousands of pounds of public funds on mortgage interest payments, redecoration and furnishings for a flat where his daughter now lives.
Ian Davidson paid £5,500 to a family friend to renovate his flat and then took him shooting with members of the House of Lords
Jim Sheridan used his allowances to reclaim the cost of a 42-inch plasma TV, leather bed and hundreds of pounds worth of furniture
Chris Mullin watches a 30-year-old black and white television at his second home and claims the £45 cost of the licence on his expenses
Russell Brown reclaimed the maximum allowed under the Commons expenses system for his bathroom to be refurbished at his rented designated second home in London
Stewart Hosie made thousands of pounds of expense claims for furnishings, including £160 for scatter cushions
Jimmy Hood used his second homes allowance to claim up to £1,000 per month without providing receipts
Sir Peter Viggers claimed for £1,600 floating duck island
Bill Wiggin claimed £11,000 in interest payments for a property which had no mortgage
James Purnell and Geoff Hoon avoided tax on home sales
Ruth Kelly claimed thousands of pounds in expenses to pay for damage caused to her home by flooding, although at the time she had a building insurance policy.
Ian Gibson claimed almost £80,000 in four years for mortgage interest and bills on a London flat which was the main home of his daughter
Michael Fallon claimed £8,300 too much in expenses for the mortgage on his second home.
Sarah McCarthy-Fry tried to claim a pair of £100 hair straighteners on her parliamentary expenses.
Jo Swinson included receipts for eyeliner, a “tooth flosser” and 29p dusters with her parliamentary expenses claims
Sir Paul Beresford, who works up to three days a week as a dentist, designated his west London property, which includes his surgery, as his second home on his parliamentary allowances
Natascha Engel went on a shopping spree within months of being elected, spending thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash
Paul Burstow doesn't claim for a second home although he is entitled to
Angela Eagle claimed just £155 a month mortgage interest on her second home for a period and even underclaimed for council tax
Peter Luff bought three lavatory seats, three food mixers, two microwaves and 10 sets of bed linen while kitting out his country house and London flat at taxpayers’ expense
Anne Main allowed her daughter to live rent-free at a flat paid for by taxpayer-funded second home allowances
John Bercow “flipped” his second home from his constituency to a £540,000 flat in London and claimed the maximum possible allowances for it
Alan Beith claimed £117,000 in second home allowances while his wife, Baroness Maddock, claimed £60,000 in House of Lords expenses for staying at the same address
George Young claimed the maximum second home allowance on his London flat for the past two years.
Keith Simpson has claimed almost £200 for light bulbs on his expenses
David Lidington charged the taxpayer nearly £1,300 for his dry cleaning and claimed for toothpaste, shower gel, body spray and vitamin supplements on his second home allowance
