The rotten pig’s trough of old Labour/Liberal/Conservative parties at Westminster have collectively been forced to pay back just on half a million pounds to the taxpayer for fake expenses claims.

The figure was contained in a report published by the Commons Members Estimate Committee yesterday. Amongst those paying back swindle claims are Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg – leaders of the three crooked parties.

Mr Brown has repaid just over £800, Mr Cameron £947 and Mr Clegg an unnamed amount.

These figures are dwarfed by other members of their parties. Some 182 MPs from all parties have repaid a total of £478,616 since being exposed in May.

Top of the repayment ladder is Labour Care Services minister Phil Hope who has paid back a whopping £42,674. His nearest rival is fellow Labour MP Elliot Morley who has had to hand back £36,800, closely followed by Labour minister Barbara Follett who has had to give up £32,976 of her ill-gotten gains.

Tory MP Jonathan Djanogly has had to cough up £25,000 in swindled claims, just bettering Labour’s Keith Vaz who has had to pay back £18,949.

Tory MP Sir Alan Haselhurst has paid back £15,653, while Labour’s Barry Gardiner has paid in £15,229 and party colleagues Paddy Tipping, Paul Goggins and Howard Stoate have paid back £14,320, £11,680 and £11,255 respectively.

Labour Cabinet minister Douglas Alexander has repaid more than £12,000 relating to the renting out of a building next to his flat between 2001 and 2005.

Cabinet ministers have so far repaid £23,443 in total while the Tory shadow cabinet ministers have repaid £30,348. Overall, Labour MPs have paid back more, £316,027. The Conservatives repaid £130,798, while the Lib Dems have repaid £27,082.

The report also shows that David Chaytor, who stood down as a Labour MP after claiming £13,000 for a mortgage which had already been paid off, has only repaid £4,812.46 of that sum so far.

The £22,500 which Labour MP Margaret Moran claimed to pay for dry rot treatment on her second home, which prompted her resignation, has yet to be repaid.

It has also emerged that 47 MPs have repaid money claimed since April this year even though the details of those claims have not yet been published.