TWO of mid Cheshire’s MPs are waiting to see if they will have to pay back any expenses claims.

Mike Hall, MP for Weaver Vale and Middlewich MP Ann Winterton, have told the Guardian they will wait until a further report is published before announcing their next move.

Sir Thomas Legg, a retired Whitehall permanent secretary, conducted an enquiry into the MPs expenses and decided to impose retrospective yearly caps on cleaning and gardening claims – £2,000 and £1,000 respectively.

Mike Hall, MP for Weaver Vale, claimed nearly £15,000 over three years for his two-storey London home to be cleaned and his clothes to be laundered and ironed.

The claims were broken down as £5,194 in 2005/06, £4,346 in 2006/07 and £5,408 in 2007/08. As a result of Sir Thomas’s report, he must now provide further details about the claims.

Mr Hall said: “I received a provisional letter which is asking me for further details.

“Everybody knows that he has made his views known and we have got a couple of weeks and I will provide him with the details that he wants and see what he has got to say.

“It is a difficult process with the way it has been done and he has had a look at every MPs claims so it is going to take a long time but it is right that he is looking at every claim.”

Meanwhile, Middlewich MP Ann Winterton has declined to tell the Guardian whether or not she has been asked to pay back any parliamentary expenses.

The Middlewich MP’s Parliamentary assistant Paul Morgan said: “Lady Winterton is not making any comment on the matter but is happy that the information will be made public in due course when Sir Thomas Legg’s findings are published next month.”

As reported in the Guardian in February 2008, Lady Winterton, 68, and her husband Sir Nicholas, 71, MP for Macclesfield, claimed more than £80,000 on a flat held in trust for their children.

In June, the Parliamentary commissioner said the arrangement was made in 1998 when there were no rules banning such arrangements.

The couple, who are not standing at the next election, moved out of the London flat last year after the arrangement to rent from the family’s trust was criticised by the commissioner as being in breach of the current rules.

Eddisbury MP Stephen O’Brien has also been asked to provide further information about his cleaning bills and an electrical repair.

He claimed £3,390.44 for cleaning over two years, along with £578 for replacement bed and bathroom furniture in 2006, including a £495 bed and £45 mirror.

George Osborne, MP for Tatton, has been told to provide copies of his mortgage interest statements.