As the expenses scandal rages in the UK, read details of some of the claims made by Labour MPs - as reported in the Daily Telegraph.
:: Gordon Brown
Mr Brown used his expenses to pay his brother Andrew £6,577 for cleaning work at his Westminster flat between 2004 and 2006.
The brothers shared the cleaner at their two flats. Under the arrangement, Andrew Brown paid the cleaner and the Prime Minister reimbursed his share of the cost.
:: Alistair Darling
Mr Darling 'switched' the location of his second home four times in four years, allowing him to claim thousands of pounds towards the cost of his Edinburgh home and for the London flat, it was reported.
The UK taxpayer contributed almost £10,000 towards the cost of furnishing the Chancellor's London flat, including £2,074 for furniture and £2,339 for 'magnolia' carpets.
The public also footed the bills for £765 from Ikea and £768 from Marks and Spencer for a bed.
In new disclosures about MPs claiming for professional help to fill in their tax returns, Mr Darling was said to have spent £1,400 on accountancy over two years.
:: Geoff Hoon
The Transport Secretary was able to switch his second home in a way which allowed him to improve his family home in Derbyshire at taxpayers' expense before buying a London townhouse.
It was reported Mr Hoon did not pay capital gains tax on an estimated £300,000 profit when he sold his London home in 2006.
Mr Hoon's accountancy claims came to almost £3,000 over two years. He also put a £200 digital camera on his office expenses.
:: Hazel Blears
The Communities Secretary claimed for three different properties in a single year, spending almost £5,000 of taxpayers' money on furniture in three months.
Ms Blears told Commons authorities a flat in south London was her second home, meaning she was able to claim back thousands of pounds in mortgage interest and running costs.
Yet when she sold the flat in Kennington, at a profit of £45,000, she paid no capital gains tax (CGT) on the windfall, indicating the flat was simultaneously registered with the taxman as her primary residence.
Ms Blears has since written out a cheque for more than £13,000 to cover the notional CGT arising from the sale of the property.
It was also revealed she claimed for accountancy services and a £219 digital camera on office expenses.
:: David Miliband
The Foreign Secretary claimed almost £30,000 for doing up his £120,000 constituency home over five years, it was reported.
He spent up to £180 every three months on the garden at the property in South Shields.
At the bottom of one receipt for £132.96 in April 2008, his gardener wrote a note questioning whether some of the work was necessary.
He also spent public money on accountancy services.
:: Douglas Alexander
Mr Alexander's constituency home was damaged in a house fire in 2007 after he spent more than £30,000 doing it up, the newspaper reported.
The International Development Secretary told the fees office he was 'under-insured' and claimed almost £2,000 on items lost in the fire, which he later repaid when his insurers reimbursed him.
Mr Alexander claimed £2,413 for accountancy bills and a £230 digital camera on office expenses, but was forced to pay a £750 bill for Christmas cards himself after being told they were not covered by the allowance.
He was also said to have charged for advice from media consultant Scarlett MccGwire.
:: Jacqui Smith
The Home Secretary allegedly bought husband Richard Timney, who is employed as an assistant, a £240 Apple iPhone on her office expenses.
She was previously forced to pay back £10 she had claimed for two adult films he watched.
She also billed taxpayers for her accountancy costs and £1,600 for three digital cameras and a camcorder over three years.
:: Jack Straw
The Justice Secretary claimed for the full cost of council tax, even though he received a 50% discount from his local authority.
He repaid the money last summer, shortly after a High Court ruling requiring the receipts to be published.
In a note to the fees office he wrote: 'Accountancy does not appear to be my strongest suit.'
:: Lord Mandelson
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson claimed thousands of pounds for work on his constituency home in Hartlepool shortly after announcing his resignation as an MP, it was reported.
He renovated the terrace house in 2004 and sold it for a £136,000 profit.
Lord Mandelson's spokesman insisted the expenditure was to repair the property, 'not improve it'.
:: John Reid
According to leaked receipts, the former Home Secretary appears to enjoy his creature comforts when in his Scottish constituency.
Mr Reid's claims included a £199 pouffe, a £370 armchair, an £899 sofa and a £29.99 a 'black glitter toilet seat'.
:: Tony Blair
The former Prime Minister was able to use his parliamentary expenses to remortgage his constituency home for £296,000 - nearly 10 times what he paid for it - just months before buying a west London house for £3.65 million.
The claims, some of which were revealed last year under a Freedom of Information request, showed interest repayments on his constituency home amounted to almost a third of the new mortgage - enough to cover the deposit on the new house.
The London town house was one of five properties owned by Mr Blair - reportedly worth a total of £10 million, the newspaper reported.
:: Shahid Malik
Justice Minister Shahid Malik claimed for tens of thousands of pounds on his second home in London while renting his constituency home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, for less than £100 a week, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Mr Malik's claims for his second home in Peckham, south London, amounted to £66,827 over three years, the highest figure for any MP, the paper said.
They were said to include £2,600 for a home cinema system - which was cut in half by the Commons Fees Office - £730 for a 'massage chair', and £65 for a court summons for the non-payment of council tax.
The Telegraph said that his landlord, local businessman and landlord Tahir Zaman, confirmed that he was paying well below the market rent for his Dewsbury address.
Mr Malik insisted he had acted within the rules.
