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Bishop repays thousands in travel costs

Former federal Speaker Bronwyn Bishop has repaid taxpayers nearly $14,000 in travel expenses since being busted using a chopper to fly from Melbourne to Geelong.

Ms Bishop charged the public purse for costs relating to 11 trips, including colleagues' weddings and media mogul Kerry Packer's funeral, according to a Department of Finance probe.

The report, obtained and published online by the Herald Sun, says Ms Bishop repaid $6768.25 for the trips.

That money is on top of $7200 she repaid for claiming the November 2014 helicopter trip.

The helicopter charter cost $5750 and she was hit with a 25 per cent penalty.

The scandal forced Ms Bishop to resign as Speaker in August 2015 and her bid for preselection in last year's federal election was unsuccessful.

An investigation into a decade of past claims followed.

The department compiled tables for each financial year and sent them to Ms Bishop to review.

If an entitlement was identified as clearly or technically within the rules, it was up to Ms Bishop to decide if the claim was within 'community expectations', according to the report.

Ms Bishop only returned checked entitlement-use tables to the department for the 2005/06, 2006/07 and 2013/14 financial years.

AAP