Health Minister Ann Keen has paid £430,000 for her husband’s life insurance and claimed the bill on her parliamentary expenses.

Reports said the Labour MP for Brentford and Isleworth purchased the policy jointly with her 70-year-old husband, Alan, to ensure a payout in the event of the death of either of them.

The minister and her husband, who is also a Labour MP, were said to have paid HSBC £867 every month, which they claimed on her House of Common expenses.

This was despite the two of them enjoying cover under their parliamentary pensions.

Revelation about the payments was made after 14 MPs were compelled to publish the details of their claims, including Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Tory leader David Cameron and former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

In the case of the Keens they were said to have used their expenses to pay the mortgage on their flat, put at £500, 000, in Waterloo, on the south bank of River Thames in London.Among luxury facilities in the block are swimming pool, gym and 24-hour concierge.

The couple reportedly bought the flat in May 2002 with a mortgage and an additional loan on their family home in Brentford, west London. Interest payments of both mortgages were also paid on expenses by the couple.

Although the claims were thought to have been approved by the House of Commons officials, it appeared they took a dimmer view of their life insurance.

However, rules were changed the following year to band the use of expenses for life insurance premiums.