Maria Miller In 30-Second Expenses Apology

Maria Miller has been forced to apologise for her attitude to an investigation into her expenses and pay back £5,800 she wrongly claimed.

The Culture Secretary gave a brief apology for her approach to the inquiry in the House of Commons following a report by the sleaze watchdog, taking just 30 seconds to say sorry.

While short, it does not out-do the 23-second apology proffered by the Conservative MP Nadine Dorries in November for failing to properly register income from her 2012 I'm A Celebrity appearance.

Mrs Miller, MP for Basingstoke, said: "The committee did recommend that I apologise to the House for my attitude to the commissioner's inquiry and I of course unreservedly apologise.

"I fully accept the recommendations of the committee and thank them for bringing this matter to an end."

Mrs Miller will keep her job and the Prime Minister said she was "doing an excellent job as Culture Secretary and will continue to do that".

He added: "If we look at this report, yes, of course these issues do matter but she was cleared of the original allegation made against her."

John Mann made the complaint to the Parliamentary Commissioner

Mrs Miller was reported to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards by Labour MP John Mann in December 2012 over concerns she had improperly claimed around £90,000 on a southwest London property between 2005 and 2009.

It was claimed that Mrs Miller, who also rents a home in Basingstoke, was not entitled to the claim because her parents were living in the house in Wimbledon.

However, her disabled parents had lived in the property, which she has since sold for £1.47m - a £1.2m profit, since 1996 and she lived with them as their carer.

The watchdog found that while she was entitled to an allowance for the home, she had claimed too much by not reflecting the fall in interest rates in the claims for mortgage repayments to the amount of £5,800.

The committee said it had taken so long to report because of the complexity of the MP's financial affairs and because they had been unable to get information with ease.

It said: "Much of the delay and difficulty in this case has arisen from incomplete documentation and fragmentary information. Mrs Miller has to carry significant responsibility for that.

"She should have attempted to provide the explanation and documentation requested by the Commissioner to the Commissioner at the outset rather than requiring us to seek the information directly."

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