Maria Miller has been told she must repay thousands in taxpayer-funded allowances she wrongly claimed for a second home.
The Conservative MP apologised to the House of Commons after being ordered to do so by the Parliament's standards watchdog because she "breached the current Code of Conduct by her attitude to this inquiry".
The Standards Committee said Mrs Miller had tried to argue her case over claims on a second home in which her parents lived "in a legalistic way".
It added that had the investigation been able to gather the documents they needed more easily, the allegations "might have been a relatively minor matter".
Mrs Miller said: "I have accepted the Committee's report in full and I will apologise. I am pleased that the Committee has dismissed the allegation made against me by a Labour MP.
"Separately, I will of course make the required repayment, having drawn the Committee's attention to this matter."
The Prime Minister's spokesman said David Cameron had spoken to Mrs Miller after the release of the Standards Committee expenses report and offered her "warm support".
John Mann made the complaint to the commissioner He said Mr Cameron felt the approach she was taking by accepting the report and apologising was "absolutely the right one".
Mrs Miller will have to repay £5,800 which was wrongly claimed on a second home she owned in Wimbledon, south London, in which she lived with her parents.
She was reported to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards by the Labour MP, John Mann, in December 2012 over concerns she had improperly claimed around £90,000 in mortgage repayments and household costs on the property between 2005 and 2009.
It was claimed that Mrs Miller, who also rents a home in Basingstoke, was not entitled to the claim because her parents were living in the home.
However, her disabled parents had lived in the property, which she has since sold for £1.47 for a £1.2m profit, since 1996 and she lived with them as their carer.
The watchdog found that while she was entitled to claim for the home, she had over-claimed by not reflecting the fall in interest rates in the claims for mortgage repayments to the amount of £5,800.
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