Shropshire and Mid Wales MPs claimed a total of £23,343 in expenses during September and October 2010, figures revealed today.

Shrewsbury Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski received £2,996, North Shropshire cabinet minister Owen Paterson £3,862, South Shropshire Tory Philip Dunne £2,941, Montgomeryshire Tory Glyn Davies £10,317, Labour’s Telford MP David Wright £2,851 and Wrekin Tory Mark Pritchard £376.

They were revealed in the latest list of claims announced by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. Claims found to be in breach of the new rules and rejected nationally were being laid bare for the first time today.

And nationally there was fresh controversy as it began emerging that about 150 claims were turned down and another 100 were only partly reimbursed by officials.

The highest claimant for Shropshire and Mid Wales was Mr Davies, though he said the figure had been distorted by his need to find accommodation and set up an office as he was newly elected last year.

He said his claims were completely legitimate but he had submitted several receipts in one go, which had made his figure higher.

He added: “There were a number of claims for my rented accommodation in London, for council tax and for office expenses.

“When I was elected, I said that I would be happy for anyone to examine my claims at any time and that remains the case.”

Mr Davies’ claims included two amounts of £1,430 for rent, one claim of £1,388 for council tax, several expensive stationery claims including one for £469 and a bill of £3,877 for staffing. There was also a claim of £225 for a telephone bill.

Details of the latest claims – some 25,000 in total – for second home, travel, office and staff costs were being unveiled by Parliament’s new expenses watchdog on its website.

They are the second tranche of payments approved by the body set up to enforce tighter rules on MPs’ use of taxpayers’ cash in the wake of last year’s expenses scandal.

The first set of claims under the new rules were published in December and revealed MPs were paid £3.1 million in expenses in the first three-and-a-half months after the general election.