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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/mps-expenses-31m-after-election.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="MPs were paid more than three million pounds in expenses in the first three and a half months after the general election" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-mps-expenses-31m-after-election.jpg" alt="MPs were paid more than three million pounds in expenses in the first three and a half months after the general election"/></a></p>
<p>MPs were paid £3.1 million in expenses in the first three and a half months after the general election, details published by a watchdog have shown.</p>
<p>A breakdown of 22,000 claims submitted between May 7 and August 31 by 576 out of the 650 MPs was released by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa).</p>
<p>They are the first payments approved by the body set up to enforce tighter rules on MPs&#8217; use of taxpayers&#8217; cash in the wake of last year&#8217;s expenses scandal.</p>
<p>Although a description of each claim will be published, Ipsa has decided it would be too expensive for it to release copies of individual receipts.</p>
<p>It was that detailed information which allowed some of the previous wrongdoing by MPs to be exposed in revelations which rocked Westminster.</p>
<p>The figures came out as anger among MPs over Ipsa&#8217;s handling of the system was set to be renewed in the Commons.</p>
<p>A backbench motion condemning the &#8220;unnecessarily high costs and inadequacies&#8221; of the new system and calling for a &#8220;simpler&#8221; alternative will be debated later.</p>
<p>Ipsa has tried to dampen criticism by declining to publish rejected claims &#8211; reported to number 1,574 so far &#8211; until the MPs and staff have got more used to the system.</p>
<p>Prime Minister David Cameron claimed £2,581.13, including £2,408.75 for an annual subscription to the Parliamentary Resources Unit, which conducts research for mainly Conservative MPs. Mr Cameron made six further claims, all for stationery. They included £94 on House of Commons headed A4 paper.</p>
<p>Labour leader Ed Miliband claimed £2.066.27, including for three payments of £550 for monthly rent on accommodation. He also paid an &#8220;office maintenance charge&#8221; of £295.84 and two office cleaning bills of £19.09. Mr Miliband spent £82.25 on a photocopier toner cartridge.</p>
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