MPs' Expenses: Miller Expected To Keep Job

Culture Secretary Maria Miller is expected to keep her job when the results of a lengthy report into her expenses claims are made public.

The Conservative MP was investigated by the Parliament's standards watchdog for using her taxpayer-funded second home allowance to pay for a house where her parents lived.

Mrs Miller claimed £90,718 between 2005 and 2009 towards mortgage payments and other household costs for the house in Wimbledon, south London, where her parents had lived since 1996.

She stopped claiming when the expenses scandal broke.

Questions were raised in 2012 over whether the home, which she reportedly sold in February for £1.47m - a £1.2m profit - was really a second home.

Mrs Miller, who also rents a home in Hampshire, insists she lived there caring for her parents, who are disabled.

The Commons Standards Committee report is expected to clear her of inappropriately claiming.

It will also consider whether she should be censured for failing to co-operate with the investigation.

The Basingstoke MP has always denied using her position overseeing the press reforms of the Leveson inquiry to threaten newspapers to back off the story of her expense claims.

It has been reported that she is likely to be asked to repay as much as £5,000 in respect of excess claims, because she failed to reflect changes interest rates in her mortgage payment claims.

David Cameron's official spokesman said on Wednesday night that he continued to have "full confidence" in the Culture Secretary.