Benefits-bashing Tory Minister Maria Miller was branded a hypocrite and told to quit yesterday after being ordered to pay back thousands in wrongly claimed taxpayers’ cash.

Ms Miller claimed £90,000 in expenses for a mortgage on a London house she shares with her parents by designating it her second home.

Parliament’s standards committee told her to return £5,800 to the public purse and apologise.

It found she spent most nights at the London address but should have “properly” claimed expenses for her Basingstoke constituency base.

Their verdict came on the day MPs debated the onslaught of benefit cuts and sanctions wages against Britain’s most vulnerable people.

Disabled People Against Cuts said an apology from the minister who has led the attack on benefits meant nothing.

Slamming shut the independent living fund for disabled people along with the doors to dozens of Remploy factories is among Ms Miller’s record as Disabilities Minister.

And DPAC spokeswoman Linda Burnip told the Star: “She should be charged with fraud like anyone else would be.

“She tells disabled people not be afraid of benefit changes while skimming taxpayers’ money for herself.

“Disabled people will be really angry that she hasn’t been charged with anything.

“If you’re a benefit claimant and make a mistake you get fined £50, no matter whose fault it is. It’s an absolute disgrace.”

Tory whips sat in a protective ring around Ms Miller as she offered a curt apology to the House of Commons.

She said: “The committee has recommended that I apologise to the house for my attitude to the Commissioner’s inquiry and I of course unreservedly apologise.

“I fully accept the recommendations of the committee and thank them for bringing this matter to an end.”

In an unprecented moment for Parliament, she spoke from the back benches despite apparently having the backing of Prime Minister David Cameron to continue as Media, Culture and Sport Secretary.

But Labour MP John Mann, who sounded the alarm over Ms Miller’s expenses, called on Mr Cameron to sack her from his Cabinet.

He said: “Maria Miller was today found to have acted in a way that is completely unacceptable for a minister.”

“Given David Cameron’s strong statements on ‘cleaning up expenses’ in the past, he will be accused of hypocrisy if he does not sack Maria Miller today.

“Her attitude to this inquiry will infuriate the public, who have had enough of the MPs’ expenses scandal and expect better from a government minister.

“Ms Miller’s apology, lasting only a few seconds, shows a lack of respect to Parliament, the Committee on Standards and the public.”

Ms Miller was cleared of allegations that she deliberately claimed expenses she was not entitled to for her parents’s benefit.

But the committee waved away Ms Miller’s claim she should pay back only £4,000 for “inadvertantly” overclaiming on mortgage interest.

“We are concerned that Ms Miller did not pay as close attention to the rules of the house as she should have done,” their report said.