The Culture Secretary abused the Parliamentary expenses system by over-claiming for her mortgage and then failing to fully co-operate with an investigation into her conduct, The Telegraph can disclose

It can also be disclosed that Mrs Miller has recently sold the south London house at the centre of the scandal for a profit of more than £1million.

The Cabinet minister, who has previously been supported by David Cameron, is expected to come under intense pressure to resign when the results of the official inquiry are made public.

The Prime Minister will be loathed to lose the state-school educated female member of his Government but any minister found to have abused the Parliamentary expenses system is likely to be seen as a major electoral liability.
One Conservative source said: “We simply cannot have a member of the Cabinet found to have abused the expenses system in any way [b]this close to vital elections[/b].”

After a 14-month investigation, Kathryn Hudson, Parliament’s standards commissioner, said earlier this year that the Culture Secretary should hand back £45,000 in over-claimed allowances for a house in south-west London.

However, MPs on the Commons standards committee overruled the commissioner on Thursday and said Mrs Miller would have to repay just £5,800 and apologise for her “attitude” during the inquiry. The minister, who made more than £1.2million from the sale of the London property in February, subsequently gave a 32-second statement of apology in the Commons.

David Cameron said afterwards that “people should leave it at that” and aides said the Prime Minister had given Mrs Miller his “warm support”.

Sir Alistair Graham, the ex-chairman of the Commons Committee on Standards in Public Life, said Mrs Miller had “got off lightly”.

Mrs Miller escaped more serious censure because of the self-regulation of MPs. She is the Cabinet minister responsible for determining the future of press regulation and has repeatedly said the media must not be allowed to sit in judgment on itself.

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Earlier today, Mr Cameron told critics to "leave it" now that Mrs Miller had apologised.

"What happened yesterday is that Maria Millar was actually cleared of the original charge made against her,” he said during a trip to Devon to inspect flood repairs.

"It was found she had made mistakes, she accepted that, repaid the money, she apologised unreservedly to the House of Commons so I think that we should leave it there."

Thomas Docherty, the MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, has now written to Scotland Yard asking that they investigate Maria Miller over her parliamentary expenses.

Mr Docherty has now asked that Scotland Yard investiagate the "serious allegations" made against Mrs Miller and also claims that she did not cooperate fully with the inquiry into her conduct.