Expenses row claims new wave of MPs

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The latest leaked details show millionaire tourism minister Barbara Follett claimed more than £25,000 for security patrols outside her home.

The Daily Telegraph's release of more material came as Commons officials called in Scotland Yard to investigate the leak.

MPs fear the drip-drip disclosure of details from more than a million receipts - which the House authorities had been preparing for publication in July after losing a long-running Freedom of Information battle - is doing irreparable harm to the reputation of British politics and parliament.

Mrs Follett and husband best-selling novelist Ken Follett own a holiday home in Antigua, a house in Cape Town, a former rectory in her Stevenage constituency which is their main residence, and a buy-to-let flat in south London. But Mrs Follett chose to nominate a property in Soho as her second home.

Although she did not claim mortgage interest payments, she did charge taxpayers for weekly "mobile security" patrols at the property, upkeep of its CCTV monitors and a burglar alarm system operated by BT.

The total bill between 2004 and 2008 was £25,411.64, according to the Telegraph.

Mrs Follett was said to have been asked a year ago to justify the security spending by the Commons fees office. She apparently replied the patrols were necessary because she had been mugged and feared for her personal safety.

She also claimed £528.75 for a Chinese needlepoint rug to be repaired and cleaned, but was only paid back £300 after it was deemed excessive.