The ACA review has published this morning. Following the Legg Report's recommendations and appeals, you can find out what your MP has or had to repay and why by clicking HERE.
A total of 373 MPs have been ordered to repay something.
Here's our league table of the biggest sums still being asked for repayment. From what we can see, there are 77 MPs (including 16 former MPs) still now being asked for money to be repaid.
Harriet Harman has told the House of Commons that MPs with amounts still owing have until 22nd February to pay the money back else there will be resolutions which could see their pay docked.
Before going into the list of what is still owing, it should be noted that the majority of MPs who were asked to have already repaid various sums of money - some of them quite huge.
The sums being listed here are those that the report is still showing as being recommended for repayment; the amounts which are still outstanding after appeals et al according to the report published today.
These are repayments of expenses that have been - according to the review - overpaid expenses, let alone what is permitted. You'll obviously know how much you get paid for a month or even an entire year... without any expenses.
Just to be helpful, we've colour coded these by political party for existing MPs.
Conservatives (11) - Labour (44) - Lib Dem (3) - Ind./Other (3)
Rt Hon David Heathcoat-Amory MP £23,569.69
Mr John Lyons (no longer an MP) £18,780.80
Mr Ivor Caplin (no longer an MP) £17,865.33
Mr Ian Gibson (no longer an MP) £16,025.00
Ms Diana Organ (no longer an MP) £15,964.01
Sir Peter Viggers MP £13,245.80
Mr Mike Hall MP £12,639.28
Mr Paul Clark MP £11,406.87
Sir Michael Spicer MP £10,000
Ms Barbara Follett MP £9,482.04
Mr Eric Joyce MP £8,602.56
Sir Michael Lord MP £5,074.48
Mr Marsha Singh MP £5,026.84
Baroness Irene Adams (no longer an MP) £5,005.00
Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP £4,799.29
Dr Des Turner MP £4,407.66
Mr Alan Simpson MP £4,296.17
Mr Don Foster MP £4,275.74
Mr Robert Wareing MP £3,676.14
Mr Gregory Campbell MP £3,673.38
Mr Derek Wyatt MP £3,611.50
Mrs Helen Clark (no longer an MP) £3,012.02
Mr John W Robertson MP £2,975.00
Ms Anne Moffat MP £2,873.53
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe MP £2,786.14
Mr David Hamilton MP £2,595.51
Rt Hon Clare Short MP £2,588.80
Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP £2,539.75
Mr Robert Blizzard MP £2,434.92
Rt Hon Paul Murphy MP £2,237.72
Mr Roger Godsiff MP £2,224.30
Mr Jim Knight MP £2,185.83
Mrs Linda Riordan MP £2,171.81
Mr John Mark Taylor (no longer an MP) £2,123.45
Ms Kali Mountford MP £1,965.79
Mr Denis Murphy MP £1,841.84
Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP £1,707.34
Mr Paul Stinchcombe (no longer an MP) £1,482.00
Ms Nadine V Dorries MP £1,314.37
Mr Edward Garnier QC MP £1,221.68
Mr Andrew George MP £1,187.84
Mr Patrick Mercer OBE MP £1,099.51
Mr Ben Wallace MP £1,079.99
Mr Kenneth Purchase MP £1,000.12
Ms Jacqui Lait MP £953.92
Miss Anne McIntosh MP £948.00
Mr Andy Reed MP £891.48
Mr Phil Woolas MP £886.16
Dr Lynne Jones MP £815.00
Ms Alison Seabeck MP £794.00
Mr Tom Levitt MP £777.95
Rt Hon Geoffrey Hoon MP £767.66
Mrs Betty Williams MP £750.25
Rt Hon Nicholas Brown MP £697.65
Mr John Smith MP £683.78
Rt Hon Kim Howells MP £659.11
Mr Khalid Mahmood MP £544.21
Mr John Owen Jones (no longer an MP) £513.10
Mrs Madeleine Moon MP £510.29
Ms Lorna Fitzsimons (no longer an MP) £500.00
Mr Alistair Carmichael MP £480.78
Mr Richard Page (no longer an MP) £479.36
Ms Angela E Smith MP £395.81
Mr Simon Thomas (no longer an MP) £349.20
Mr David Jamieson (no longer an MP) £347.50
Mr Alan Keen MP £345.00
Mr Keith Simpson MP £330.61
Mr Terence Rooney MP £297.02
Mr Huw Irranca-Davies MP £257.92
Mr Barry Sheerman MP £245.26
Mr David Stewart (no longer an MP) £192.00
Mr George Mudie MP £182.51
Mr Adrian Flook (no longer an MP) £158.69
Rt Hon Denis MacShane MP £153.40
Mr Ivan Henderson (no longer an MP) £149.25
Mr Shaun Woodward MP £43.73
Mr Shahid Malik MP £36.14
Overall, the MP asked to pay back most was Ms Barbara Follett MP who had to pay back a total of £42,458.21
Some MPs have already paid back way MORE than they were being asked to. Quite a few MPs have paid back too much by sums of between a couple of hundred and a couple of grand. The biggest over-repayments to the public purse we could spot include:
Mr Phil Hope MP - has repaid £38,308.48 MORE than he had to
Mr Paul Goggins MP - has repaid £20,231.22 MORE than he had to
Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP - has repaid £17,435.82 MORE than he had to
Mr Barry Gardiner MP - repaid £15,229.90 MORE than he had to
Sir John Butterfill MP - has repaid £15,114.30 MORE than he had to
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