The issue of MPs expenses is still causing politicians mental stress, according to their doctor.

Ira Madan, consultant occupational physician at the House of Commons, explained Ipsa, the new expenses watchdog, was cited by MPs as the cause of their anxieties as well being the butt of people’s jokes.

“The frustrations and difficulties members are experiencing with Ipsa are contributing to poor mental wellbeing,” Dr Madan told the Commons committee, which deals with members’ expenses, yesterday.

She said: “The bureaucracy of Ipsa has increased their workload, they find it increasingly frustrating to deal with Ipsa, they are concerned that the way the expenses are reported by Ipsa is picked up by their local constituency press and there can be some fairly vitriolic reporting of that.

“If they go to the hairdresser, people will say: ‘Are you going to put that on expenses?’ It might be funny for the first one or two times but, actually, it gets right up their noses.”

It came as Ipsa released details of MPs who wrongly claimed taxpayer-funded expenses for websites, featuring party logos.

Among the 20 parliamentarians were Moray MP Angus Robertson, the SNP leader at Westminster and Dundee West Labour MP Jim McGovern. But they did not have to pay back the cash because the breaches were relatively minor.