FACTBOX - Casualties of British expenses scandal

(Reuters) - Cabinet minister Hazel Blears confirmed on Wednesday she is to resign, becoming the latest high profile minister to leave Prime Minister Gordon Brown's struggling Labour government.

Blears had said she would pay 13,332 pounds in capital gains tax she had avoided on the sale of a London property.

Blears had told tax authorities it was her main residence, though for parliamentary purposes she had said it was a second home, thus qualifying for expense awards. Capital gains tax applies to the sale of second homes.

Here is a list of MPs who have said they will step down after being caught up in a scandal over parliamentary expenses:

* Parliamentary Speaker Michael Martin is to stand down on June 21. Martin, criticised over his handling of the expenses controversy, is the first Speaker forced to resign since 1695.

* Junior Justice Minister Shahid Malik has stepped down from his ministerial post, though not as an MP, pending the result of an investigation into allegations he paid below-market rent for a house.

The following MPs have said they will leave parliament at the next election:

* David Chaytor, Labour, who claimed for a mortgage he had already paid off.

* Labour MP and former Environment Minister Elliot Morley, who claimed 16,000 pounds for a mortgage that had already been repaid.