A cabinet minister accused of breaching the lockdown faces fresh questions over his housing portfolio as he has charged taxpayers more than £100,000 for a constituency home that he appears to use only rarely.

Robert Jenrick, the housing, communities and local government secretary, was accused of ignoring government advice last week after leaving his £2.5m London house during the lockdown and moving to a country home that he owns in Herefordshire.

Lockdown rules say families should not travel to second homes. Matt Hancock, the health secretary, said such journeys were not “necessary”.

A spokesman for Jenrick said the minister considered the £1.1m, 17th-century grade I listed country house near Leominster to be his family home — and that his wife and children moved there before