Disgraced MP Derek Conway must pay back £13,160 expenses he claimed for son's 'wages'

Disgraced Conservative MP Derek Conway has been given a year to pay back expenses he claimed for family members.

House of Commons officials have ordered that £13,160 must be paid back in 12 instalments from his wages.

Tory leader David Cameron sacked Mr Conway after it emerged he was claiming taxpayer's money for his two sons while they were at university.

The scandal, revealed in January that Henry and Freddie Conway were paid £80,000 of public money for doing very little work.

The £13,160 repayments are for wages given to Freddie after an inquiry found no evidence of any work done as a researcher for his father.

Pressure group Taxpayers' Alliance said Mr Conway should have been ordered to pay back the money immediately with interest.

Alliance spokesman Mark Wallace said: 'Why on earth is this man being given so long to pay back the money he wrongly took from taxpayers?

'If all this time his family has had the benefit of this money, there should be interest that, if gathered up, can be given back to us all.

'It's crazy that he's still being paid by the taxpayer.'

Mr Conway was stripped of the Tory party whip and suspended from the Commons after being condemned by a Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.

The report said Freddie had done nothing despite earning £50,000 in public allowances.

The 22-year-old was employed on his father's staff while studying full time at Newcastle University.

The MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup announced that he would stand down at the next General Election.

But he still faces a second inquiry over £32,000 paid to his elder son Henry.

His wife Collette was also paid through public funds, but she worked legitimately as his secretary.

The scandal prompted the Government to rush forward plans to add more independent scrutiny to parliamentary expenses.

But Labour MPs voted to allow members to still spend £2,400 a year on furniture and household goods.

Their claims would then be scrutinised by the National Audit Office, the independent Whitehall spending watchdog.