I assume that a formal complaint has been filed with the police.

Beth Williams, Leith,

If any of us defrauded our employer we would be jailed.

Disgruntled Dorothy, Glasgow, Scotland

sounds like a bargain

martin brighton, sheffield,

Is it time for the revolution yet? Not a chance! As long as we have East Enders, The Apprentice and Africa to worry about, the Politicos can milk us dry.

Richard, Carcassonne , France

This is disgusting and I will remember it come the next election.

David Armstrong, Essex,

Now that the first 14 MP's have been required by law to publish details of their expenses, constituents might consider emailing their MP's to ask them to voluntarily post theirs on their websites.

:-)

Sue, Felpham,

Thanks to the Sunday Times for fighting for 3 years to have the right to inform people about this scandal!
These MPs are a disgrace and I hope they won't go away with this. Daniele

Daniele, London,

Time and time again we hear the same old excuse that they haven't done anything wrong and it is all within the rules. Then I say it's about time the rules were changed

Mike Bullivant, Wimborne, UK

Parliament should have its house put in order independently and MP jobs rated and valued in a realstic way. MPs should be held accountable in a court of law for any seemingly fraudulent uses of taxpayers funds. MPs pay their own way fom salaries and trim down greedy pension schemes.

Mr Jack Morley, Rossendale, England

This matter should be reported to the police immediately.

Nathan, London,

come the revolution ! and we get honest politicians they both should be locked up, if i swindled someone i would be, and they have swindled millions of people, the taxpayer,!~!!!
Act now brown u are happy to cRACK DOWN ON ORDINARY PEOPLE FIRST CLEAN YOUR OWN BACKYARD!!!!!!!!

JONATHAN ROSE, great torrington, devon

I ask anyone that reads the above article, WHY are you continuing paying your taxes to people like this? Why are you voting for them?
I know it has probably been going on for years, but all these people who are in these places of trust and supposed to be "honourable" people shoud resign NOW.

Anne Palmer, West Midlands, England

Abuse of the Public Purse is not a sacking offense.
Gordon Brown has been abusing the Public Purse for 10 years and by doing so was promoted to Prime Minister!!

Louis Blanc, Liverpool, UK

So why is she not already in prison, the police and the home secretary know about it, she should have been arrested before it became public knowledge. Oh no, I forgot, they are all at it so it is OK.

Peter Fordham, Pego, Spain

RESIGN

Jonathan , London,

Enough already. No good whinging. What are we going to do about it? we must demand debate as a nation. We have seen the man in the white suit (Peter Bell?) win, we need more influentials to open the floodgates. The two Jeremys, Clarke and Paxman both popular in their views, for example. Im serious!

kenny livitt, hove,

Labour is decaying and not reNEWable

James Wong, Macau,

14 down, only 632 to go. Over the next 2 years the full monty of MP's scams will be revealed. I hope we've all taken our blood pressure tablets. But this will be a wonderful opportunity to clear out the Augean stables.

Alan Gooch, Honiton,

Come on conservatives, add a policy to scrap these expenses to your manifesto and the whole country will be behind you!

PC, Camberley, UK

Since when was this a justifiable expense? Since New Labour took over, that's when. I would prefer a "Tory Toff" to a "Labour Oik" any day.

Peter, Brixham, Devon

MR Brown ,Can we please have a general election ASAP ? thank you .

gordon lonsdale, Northampton, uk

ANARCHY- general lawlessness and disorder esp. as a result of lack or failure of government
And I thought we were a Democracy.
There are more moral lawbreakers at Westminster than ever served their time at Dartmoor.
Why do we stand for it?

j.b.windmill, brierley hill, ENGLAND

Can we expect sackings and resignations now?.
I will not hold my breath.

David Knight, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Repay.
Halve her future national pension.
Jail her for fraud.

Labour: the party of the people?
There _has_ to be an example made.

irp, Huddersfield,

If Gordon Brown was in tune with the electorate - listening and acting - he would have sacked Mrs keen as a Minister before lunchtime.

Has he?

MarkS, Leeds,

Now we know why they needed to scrap the 10p tax band.

MarkS, Leeds,

Thats the problem, when a party is in power too long, politicians becomes corrupt and bankrupt the country by lining their own pockets. There is a saying, politicians wants to get elected to get rich. Just ask ourselves this, how many politicians are born rich, now how many politicians are not rich?

Kim, Darlington, Durham

I feel disgusted and filled with contempt - how can these people remain in their positions of power? New Labour has been the worst and most dishonest government we have ever had. Taxes, education, removal of privacy and the right to choose...why is nothing done about this?

Ian Roberts, Kinmel Bay,

People who pay 50% of the market price for affordable housing only keep 50% of the gain when they sell their one and only home. When MPs sell their 2nd govt. subsidised homes - do they keep all the gain? Are the expenses repaid? Perhaps the public purse should benefit.

N Reed, Truro, UK

She should be sacked if what is written is correct and is the full story.

N Reed, Truro, UK

I'm sure you read this Anne, come on, don't be shy. Lets here your explanation.

Craig, Kingsbridge, Devon

Stop voting until the system is changed - without the public's support they are nothing.

dave, sidcup, uk

As a civil servant any expenses, which are minutely detailed as what and how much is claimable, we are reminded (threatened) of dismissal if inpropriatory is found. When working in industry any expenses allowed to be claimed were detailed by the Inland Revenue. Westminster stinks.

Romans Seja, Billesdon, UK

labour is on a decoy misssion with the help of camerron, there is honour amongst criminals when it come to stealing tax payers cash in the disguise of expenses , whilst the media is led by the nose in search of hare of a new leader the real story is fraud .

michael , adams town-cahersiveen, madness

Utterly disgraceful. But just what we've come to expect from the political slime at Westminster.

Mick, Leeds,

Why are you all so surprised? Pigs at the trough!

Tom Jackson, London, UK

New Labour brings new ways to con the taxpayer..

Clive, Dartford, Kent

No wonder MPs didn't want the list published. If it weren't so appalling, it would be providing us all with a good laugh. Who really thought MPs wouldn't be milking the system? It was guaranteed to expose the greed and corruption that goes hand in hand with power abuse. There's nothing new...

Sarah Hague, Montpellier, France

What you wont get now is Ms Keen giving interviews to explain this rotten scam. When New labour want to they're all ears - but when it suits them they're nowhere to be seen.

Sparks, uk,

She is health minister and we are paying for her insurance premiums. People with cancer are dying early because PCTs are not funding life extending drugs. This country is in a mess!

C Stone, Witney, UK

To sum, there's absolutely nothing at all MPs don't pay for at the public's expense: they bank their salaries and live off the backs of taxpayers.

Robert, Hull, East Yorkshire

Keen is a typical product of the life long public sector worker who views the rules of claiming expenses as fair game for getting as much money as you can whether it is morally acceptable or not. It's that culture of if you can get away with it claim it. Shame on you Keen!

mike lincoln, wakefield,

This is just plain wrong. She must repay every penny of this and then consider her position.

You have to question how this got to be approved in the first. There must be a very worn out rubber stamp in Westminster !

Phil, Essex, UK

The priveliged few get fatter and richer using Accountants to minimise their own out goings and milk the system. It's high time the tables were turned.

MG, Portsmouth,

Watch this swept under the carpet because all of the Labour party and their cronies are at it from top to bottom. Freebies all round for all the team!
So much for the party who was "clean and had ethics". The expenses issue and Cherie Blair's story tell us exactly what they are all like. Ghastly!!

Martin, Uddingston, Scotland

All politicians are now totally and utterly discredited. A national campaign should be started to encourage everyone in the UK to withold their vote until these people clean up their act. Where are the processes to prevent this abuse? What else are they hiding?

Huw, Killarney, Ireland

Does she continue to claim this expense now it has been exposed and theacid test will be will she continue to pay it when she loses her seat?

Keith, Pembroke Dock, U.K.

I think this woman should be made to pay all the money back, with interest. Which is what Revenue and Customs would do if I had made a false claim for expenses on my income tax return.

Chris Knight, Betete, France

This sounds like a police matter.

Chris Jackson, London,

And therefore Miss X is now the member for X constituency. Welcome to the gravy train.

Bernard Lawson, London, England

Why the surprise. Most of our MP's seem to be no more than feckless, loud-mouthed, opinionated unemployable dead weights living high on the hog on state benefits at the expense of the decent working people of the UK.

Oh sorry, that is the underclass that they talk on and on about.

Jim Easby, Sheffield, UK

That they've looked after the middle classes is a myth. They've looked after no one but themselves. I can't wait to see the back of them. The party that gives me value for money gets my vote- I pay 40% tax and still have to pay for private dental care, as I can't find my family an NHS dentist.

tony, liverpool, uk

MPs expenses and what they claim is not only staggering, it is appalling and an abuse of the tax-payer. In this instance Ann Keen MUST be made to repay whatever she has claimed for premium payments immediately and if she holds a ministerial position she must be removed.

Kenneth Armitage, Suffolk, England

More snouts in the trough

Derek, Ashton,

People ask what Labour are doing with all our Taxes, now we know! linning their own pockets. What this country needs is a good old general strike, it needs to tell Mr Brown and the rest that enough is enough!

SD, Fleet, Hampshire

As long as the MP votes exactly as instructed by the Whip, then he has a free hand to fill his pockets from the money trough full of public money.
This goverment can be proud of mass out of control immigration, and mass encouraged out of control sleaze from MPs.
What a shameful goverment.

J,Doeman, Leeds, UK

THIS IS DISGUSTING
Should be made to pay it back with interest.
Is the £867 a month on insurance included in the below allowance figure claimed by her??
Her expenses 2006/07 =Total £135,599 (370th)

I have contacted her on the below to register my disgust

E-mail: annkeenmp@parliament.uk

Margaret, Bristol, UK

An absolute disgrace !

Stevey Boy, kidderminster,

Another man defrauded money from the taxpayer to give to his children because he thought it was his personal piggy bank. 2 other MP's set up a lovely deal over their properties to avoid any Inheritance Tax issues. A dozen others didn't declare the source of cashgifts. ALL WERE TORIES. You hypocrates

A Thomas, Durham,

To Peter Norris, Tiverton: You have to remember that politicians control the police, decide which crimes will be prosecuted, and decide who will be re-appointed Commissioner of the Met (and who won't). If Blair and Levy can get away with what they did, selling titles, they are all above the law.

John, London, UK

Do the husband and collect the pay-out on behalf of the exchequer. Firm, but fair: NuNuLabour!

David Masu, Zürich,

They should all be made to explain their expenses in public.

Robin Savage, putney,

I am incensed. How could anyone think that it would morally acceptable to claim this through expenses?
However this may be marginally acceptable if they are willing to give the tax payer the payout in the event of one of their deaths. After all we paid the premiums.

Cath, Northants,

Cancel the policy and make her repay the taxpayers money. Failing that sack her immediately.

Cromwell, Leeds, England

I have always voted Labour. BUT enough is enough. What one reads about them now generally connects to what one would describe as slime ball antics. How low can these people stoop? New middle class Labour are surely finished. They will not get my vote for a long time to come. Greed...greed...

Greg, Glasgow, UK

WHY would traditional Labour voters continue to vote for them? They voters know that the influx of migrants from abroad has impacted heavily on the working class. Our indigenous poor are now poorer. The Labour Party have allowed that. They have looked after the middle class and foreign workers.

Tony, Bristol, England

will she be punished? Will she also be made to pay back the money? Also how can this be prevented from happening in the future?

presh, Bath,

This "expense" claim is simply staggering. They have to go.

Phil Pickervance, Denton Manchester, England

Labour politicians - standing up for the poor every time!

Des, Edinburgh,

There is no way an expense of this can be justifiably taken from the public purse.

We, the hard-working tax-payers who havr to pay for our own life cover out of our own pockets, AFTER we've paid tax on the money, have been taken for a ride for far too long on thigs like this.

Goodbye Mrs Keen.

Tim, Bristol,

Goodness Gracious me - this beggars belief - and we are supposed to be honest citizens - what on EARTH do they get paid for when thay can charge their water usage (Blair) and then this - this is not expenses - this is just living costs that they choose to spend. Come off it !!! - Get real !

Susie, Cambridge, UK

This has got way out of hand. I do wish the Police start investigating some of these 'expenses' claims as it strikes me this very much borders or, or might even be theft. Either way, the involved MP's and not setting a particularly good example at a time of widespread pay restraint.

Peter Norris, Tiverton, Devon

An absolute disgrace !!

TrevorH, OXON,

Altogether now, Labour supporters of innumerable measures to intrude into the private lives of the public...

"If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide".

Jamie, Gtr Manchester, UK

Surely M.P.s have to serve an apprenticeship on the U.K. parliamentary gravy train so that they can really take advantage of the Euro meat & two veg. train if and when it comes along.

Bill Wilson, Aberdeen, Scotland