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Tony McNulty will be forced to pay back over £13,000 and apologise to the Commons for expenses abuses.
The Commons' committee on standards and privileges committee recommended that he repay £13,837, the difference between what he claimed and "what he should have claimed".
Mr McNulty, a former minister, was the subject of a seven-month investigation by the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Sir John Lyon, who passed his findings to the standards and privileges committee.
He claimed his second home allowance for a property his parents lived in in Harrow, eight miles from his home in central London.
"We conclude that Mr McNulty breached the rules of the House by claiming against his additional costs allowance for expenses in respect of his second home that were not wholly and exclusively incurred in connection with his parliamentary duties," the report concluded.
"This had the effect of subsidising the living costs of Mr McNulty's parents from public funds."
The ex-Home Office minister stood down as a minister in June amid a cloud of criticism, but always insisted he had been within the rules of the time. Tory MP Greg Hands complained about Mr McNulty in March.
Earlier this month former home secretary Jacqui Smith was forced to apologise to the Commons for expenses abuses.
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