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They included Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn and Housing Minister Caroline Flint.

Others included Sir George Young, chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee, and Sir Stuart Bell, who is one of the senior MPs reviewing parliamentary expenses.

All listed their relatives in the first publication of the Register of Members' Interests to include such details in the wake of the Derek Conway scandal.

Mr Conway was stripped of the Tory whip and suspended from the Commons for 10 days for overpaying his son out of his expenses. There is no suggestion any others of the 106 MPs to declare their interests since April 1 have broken the rules.

The declaration of relatives who are paid out of MPs' expenses has only been voluntary since April 1, although party leaders have urged their MPs to do so as soon as possible.

It will not be compulsory until August 1, when it will include all relatives paid more than 1% of an MP's basic salary - or £618 a year.

Mr Conway declares that he still employs his wife, Colette Conway, as an "office manager/executive secretary".

The pay range for such a role is from £21,320 to £40,052.

Ms Smith lists her husband, Richard Timney, as a "senior research/parliamentary assistant", who will be earning between £27,780 and £40,052.