FOUR local MPs have been ordered to pay back more than £6,500 of taxpayers' money in the long-awaited review of Parliamentary expenses.

Stockport Labour MP Ann Coffey has paid back the £1,381 extra she had claimed for cleaning costs over five years.

Andrew Gwynne, Labour MP for Reddish and Denton, was told to repay £2,969 he had been overpaid in mortgage interest . He was paid £358 twice in 2006 for the same item of furniture. Mr Gwynne has already paid back the money.

Tom Levitt, Labour MP for High Peak, was asked for the £800 he was overpaid in mortgage interest and £1,599 for a sofa bed that exceeded the guideline price by £389 . He still owes £777.

Poynton and Disley's Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Winterton has repaid £850 for four years of overpaid council tax bills.

The review by Sir Thomas Legg, hit out at the 'deeply flawed' House of Commons expenses system.

It recommended a total of 390 MPs repay £1.3m. Almost £800,000 has already been repaid.

An appeals process overseen by former judge Sir Paul Kennedy cut the repayments demanded by £185,000 to a total of £1.12m.

The highest single payment demand has been made of Barbara Follett, Labour MP for Stevenage , Hertfordshire - £42,458.

Sir Thomas said that between 2004 and 2009 senior figures in the Commons had been more focused on the 'immediate interests' of MPs than 'propriety in public expenditure' .

The ruling Commons Members Estimate Committee has set a deadline of February 22 for MPs to arrange repayments of the amount demanded.

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