A Shropshire MP today called on the chairman of a committee writing new Commons rules in the wake of the expenses scandal to scrap second homes allowance.

Daniel Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury, believes the move would make the system more transparent with MPs then only able to claim for office and travel expenses. He has issued the call in a letter to Sir Christopher Kelly.

In the letter to the chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, he states that he believes MPs should be put up in an apartment block instead of sorting their own accommodation.

The committee is carrying out an independent review of new Commons rules in the wake of the expenses scandal.

Mr Kawczynski said he believed that the expenses which had caused the biggest contention related to the second homes allowance.

He said: “I’ve written to Sir Christopher Kelly to ask him to abolish the second homes allowance totally in exchange for what they do in European capitals which is to rent accommodation like a block of flats and house the MPs in this.

“That would then mean no financial transactions are necessary for any members of parliament involved in this scheme.

“I think it’s the easiest, most cost-effective, most transparent way of staying in London. There would be no need for expenses other than for travel and running your office. But these expenses need to be transparent as well.”

The Tory urged people to write to Sir Christopher to have their say about ways they would like the system to be improved.

Yesterday Prime Minister Gordon Brown came under fire for trying to fast-track new laws designed to clean up Westminster on to the statute book.

The Parliamentary Standards Bill setting up an independent regulator for MPs cleared the Commons in just three days last week, and the premier hopes it will complete its passage through the Lords and become law by the start of the summer recess on July 21.

But the cross-party House of Lords Constitution Committee today said it was “unacceptable” for a bill with such constitutional significance to be rushed through Parliament so quickly.