DEWBURYMP Shahid Malik has claimed thousands of pounds in taxpayer allowances on his second home while renting his main home, it was reported tonight.

The Daily Telegraph reported that justice secretary Mr Malik had run up the highest expenses claim of any MP, claiming second home allowances of £66,827 over three years on his house in London.

At the same time the paper claimed that his main home was a three-bedroom house in his constituency which he had secured for a discounted rent of less than £100 a week.

Mr Malik's second home claims were said to include £2,600 for a home cinema system - which was cut in half by the Commons Fees Office - £730 for a `"massage chair'", and £65 for a court summons for the non-payment of council tax.

Mr Malik tonight denied breaking any rules, saying the expenses system was flawed.

He declined to discuss the Telegraph’s claim that he was renting a house in Dewsbury at below market value, saying: "That is my private business."

He added: "I spend half the week in Dewsbury and half the week in London and claim on my second home in London.

"I have not broken any rules. It is correct that I put a claim in for a home cinema system costing £2,600.

"I rang the Fees Office and asked if there was a limit to what I could spend before I bought a TV and they said ’no’. I did think at the time that was madness.

"When I put the claim in they came back and said I had exceeded the limit. They later apologised and in the end they paid half.

"I was a new MP and in hindsight I am sure there are lots of things lots of MPs would do differently.

"The system was inevitably going to fail."

The latest disclosures came at the end of a day which saw the ongoing scandal over MPs' expenses claim its first victims.

Former minister Elliot Morley was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party while Andrew MacKay resigned as an aide to Tory leader David Cameron.

Mr Malik’s claims for his London house in Peckham appeared to stand in sharp contrast to his arrangement at his designated main home in his Dewsbury constituency.

The Daily Telegraph said that his landlord, local businessman Tahir Zaman, confirmed that he was paying well below the market value for his rent.

"He is definitely paying well under the market value rent," Mr Zaman told the paper. "I’m renting (out) the next-door (property), (it’s) half the size of his property, they pay me more rent than what he’s paying me."

The paper said that in 2005 Mr Zaman pleaded guilty to letting a house to a family of five despite a council enforcement order classing building as "uninhabitable".

He was said to have been fined £450 and ordered to pay £200 costs.

The Daily Telegraph said Mr Zaman also received more than £4,000 a year from Mr Malik for renting out his constituency office to him. The money is funded from a separate system of parliamentary expenses.

Mr Zaman said tonight he could not give any details about the house he rented to Mr Malik.

"That is for him to say," he said.

He would not confirm how much Mr Malik was paying but said he treated the MP the same as any other tenant.

He said if he was charging a low rate it was because there were more properties available than tenants so rental prices were being pushed down.

"Not one of my tenants is charged any more than the professional advice I receive and that includes Mr Malik," he said.

"He might be paying less on everything, and so is everybody else."

Asked if he treated Mr Malik any differently, he replied: "Exactly the same. I’ve never given any preference to him or anybody else."

Of the constituency office he said: "If anybody wants to rent Mr Malik’s office for higher rent when his lease expires I don’t mind if they want to come along and we will be asking Mr Malik to find new offices."

He vigorously denied being a "slum landlord" and said he was on a council list of accredited landlords.

Mr Zaman, who owns about 100 properties, said the fine he recieved came about after he bought a property which he later discovered had no planning permission.

There were already tenants inside and "I couldn’t kick them out so I had to go to court", he said.

Earlier this week Mr Malik had told the Examiner he feared MPs had played the expenses system.

Click here to read his views on expenses earlier this week - before tonight's revelations .