SHAMED former Bury MP David Chaytor kept claiming parliamentary expenses - even after he had been charged with fiddling the system, it has been revealed.

Chaytor, who is now serving an 18 month jail term, put in bills for hundreds of pounds in subsistence and mortgage interest.

Disgraced ex Livingston MP Jim Devine also claimed cash for household costs, such as utility bills, after he had been charged.

He is waiting to be sentenced.

The claims for living costs came after February 5 lasy year, when both men were charged with false accounting, and continued until just weeks before the general election.

Both men were barred as standing as Labour candidates after the allegations of abuse emerged.

The spending was disclosed in new details of expenses published by the house of Commons.

On February 18, former Bury North MP Chaytor put in a claim for £525 in subsistence.

No receipts were required because MPs could claim a flat rate of £25 per night.

The same day he asked for £334.96 in mortgage interest, and on March 3 he charged £109 for a gas bill.

He was convicted of filing thousands of pounds worth of bogus invoices and claiming rent for a home he actually owned.

Chaytor, aged 61, was jailed in January after pleading guilty to three counts of flase accounting between November 2005 and January 2008.

Last week he launched a bid to challenge his 18 month jail sentence.

He had falsley claimed more than £22,000.

Devine put in for £775 in subsistence last March, and another £283.22 in assorted bills and other costs.

The data shows he even kept claiming after Parliament was dissolved for the election, and he had officially stopped bing MP for Lvingston.

On April 16 he claimed £166.55 for a property service charge, and £38.16 for council tax.

Last month Devine was found guilty of providing