Mr Danczuk says he didn't check rules and will pay back anything he owes

Claims go back to 2011 but his children have not lived with him in London

Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has been reported to both the police and the parliamentary standards commissioner over thousands of pounds worth of 'fraudulent' expenses claims.

The backbencher is accused of claiming more than £25,000 in extra accommodation allowances since 2011 for his children, despite none of them living with him in London.

The embattled MP, who was suspended from the Labour party over allegations he had been sexting with a teenager, said he had not read the rules in detail.

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Labour backbencher Simon Danczuk (pictured) is accused of claiming more than £25,000 in extra accommodation allowances since 2011 for his children, despite none of them living with him in London

It is understood Mr Danczuk has not seen two of his children for several years - and comes just months after the MP was probed over huge overtime payments for his ex-wife Karen.

He has now been reported to both Greater Manchester Police and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

Mr Danczuk admits he did not check the rules carefully and would pay back anything he is found to owe.

However he also accused Ipsa's rules of being 'too vague' and out of keeping with modern parenting - while claiming the complaints were 'politically motivated'

Parliamentary rules allow MPs a basic annual allowance of £20,600 for accommodation in London.

They can get an extra £2,425 per year for each dependant that stays with them.

The Rochdale backbencher, who is currently suspended from the Labour party, has four children.

However two of them live with his ex-wife Sonia, who has publicly said in the past that he never sees them and has not done so for years.

His other two children, with his most recent ex-wife Karen, live with her in their former marital home in Rochdale.

Since 2011 he has claimed extra cash for at least some of them every year.

It is understood Mr Danczuk has not seen two of his children for several years - and comes just months after the MP was probed over huge overtime payments for his ex-wife Karen

An Ipsa spokesman said the only reason an MP can claim more than the basic allowance for accommodation is for a dependant child. In 2011 he successfully claimed £22,937, in 2012, £29,013.22, in 2013/14 £27,581.46 and in 2014/15, £28,466.58.

According to Ipsa rules, the allowance is only available to MPs whose children are 'routinely' living with them and being cared for in London.

He also claimed for 34 train tickets - many of them first class - for his children to travel up and down to London since 2013. Ipsa rules on this are the same - 15 return journeys are allowed a year, but they are supposed to be for children who are routinely living with the MP in London.

A spokesman for GMP said: 'A report of misconduct has been made to GMP and we are currently liasing with IPSA to ascertain who will investigate these allegations.'

IPSA also confirmed it had received the complaint.

A spokesman for Simon Danczuk's office confirmed the two children by his most recent marriage do live in Rochdale, but said they regularly visit him in London.

However when asked whether he would pay it back immediately, before any potential investigation had been carried out, he did not comment.

He told the M.E.N: 'My Ipsa claim was made properly and at a time when it was expected all four of my children would regularly come and stay with me at the same time.

'Perhaps Ipsa's rules are too vaguely worded and not flexible enough to cope with modern families like mine.

'Any divorced father will tell you that living circumstances can change quickly and there can always be periods when you see your children more often than at other times.

Mr Danczuk is currently suspended from the Labour party while an investigation is carried out into claims he 'sexted' a 17-year-old looking for employment

'But it would be irresponsible, and incredibly costly to Ipsa, for me to be constantly moving to different flats in London just to accommodate temporary changes in my family life.

'I have always made it clear that my children are welcome to come and live with me at any time and I have made sure I was able to support them properly when that would happen.

'In doing so I have acted according to my honest interpretation of the Ipsa regulations.

'On another issue, Ipsa has already ruled that I have no case to answer regarding overtime paid to my ex-wife Karen and they will similarly find no evidence of wrongdoing here.

'These frivolous and politically motivated complaints to Ipsa and Greater Manchester Police are the real waste of taxpayer's money.'

An initial analysis of the accommodation claims for the last parliament suggests Mr Danczuk had the highest total claim in the country between 2010 and 2015.

Mr Danczuk was investigated by Ipsa last year over £10,000 in overtime claims for his ex-wife Karen, who had worked for him in his constituency office.

That Ipsa investigation has now been dropped.

He is currently suspended from the Labour party while an investigation is carried out into claims he 'sexted' a 17-year-old looking for employment in his office.

The MP said a 'drink problem' led him to send sexts to Sophena Houlihan when she was 17 and that he felt 'awful' about the lewd messages.

Miss Houlihan, who is now 18, said Mr Danczuk sent her numerous messages, including one asking if she wanted a 'spanking' after she contacted him about a job.

He has been suspended from the Labour Party while an investigation takes place into his conduct, for which he has apologised 'unreservedly'.

The MP has rarely been out of the headlines since splitting with his second wife, Karen last year.

In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday this month, Mr Danczuk's first wife Sonia Rossington, 39, claimed the MP – who she divorced in 2010 – had driven her into therapy with drug and alcohol-fuelled bullying and his obsessive demands for sex.