article_snippet: Mr Simmonds has claimed more than £1.7million in expenses since becoming a Tory MP in 2001.
article_snippet: Mr Simmonds also made more than £500,000 by selling a house on which the taxpayer paid the mortgage interest.
article_snippet: Six months after becoming an MP, Mr Simmonds bought a five-bedroom house in Putney, south-west London, for £650,000.
article_snippet: From 2001 to 2009, Mr Simmonds claimed £2,000 a month for the mortgage interest.
article_snippet: When expenses rules were changed to ban such claims, Mr Simmonds sold the property in January 2011 for £1,187,500 – £537,000 more than Mr Simmonds paid.
article_snippet: The £1.25million mansion in Mr Simmonds constituency of Boston and Skegness, which has  a luxury private pool and a tennis court .
article_snippet: The same month, Mr Simmonds used the massive profit to help buy the 17th-century property in Mr Simmonds constituency for £900,000.
article_snippet: Mr Simmonds said at the time Mr Simmonds expenses