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Culture secretary Maria Miller is set to repay up to £5,000 and be censured for over-claiming for her mortgage, according to a report in The Telegraph.
Miller is said to have claimed more than £90,000 over four years for a second home where her parents lived in South London, rather than submitting claims for cottages she rented in her Basingstoke constituency. According to the newspaper, Miller recent sold the house for a profit of more than £1m.
Parliamentary authorities first launched an inquiry into Miller’s claims over a year ago.
Miller became culture secretary in September 2012, replacing Jeremy Hunt, after being promoted from her job as under secretary of state for disabled people at the Department of Work and Pensions. She has been praised by the Arts Council England for her focus on “culture’s economic impact”.