He told jurors he had made the claims for accommodation because "all the other peers were doing it".
Chris Bryant and Ian Davidson have not made any claims for accommodation this financial year.
Claims for hotel accommodation rose 31.7% compared to the previous three-month period, to £29,138.
Language and religion are at the heart of many claims for cultural accommodation by immigrants.
It said it would investigate claims made for accommodation expenditure and travel and subsistence, adding: "In accordance with the legislation and the procedures for investigation made thereunder, no further information shall be published until the investigation has been concluded".
The money, the player claimed, was for accommodation, trials at clubs in France and travel for Mbvoumin to visit clubs where the trials would be held.
Asked if he made claims for journeys and accommodation in London on dates when he was in Essex because he felt the system was unfair, he answered: "I did it because all the other peers were doing it.
Lord Hanningfield, 70, who is being tried under his name Paul White, made various "false and misleading" claims for travel and accommodation expenses between March 2006 and April 2009, Chelmsford crown court was told.
Mr Halfon is allowed to claim for overnight accommodation, despite living within a commutable distance from Westminster, due to his disability, a form of cerebral palsy.
Lady Warsi, the Conservative party co-chairman, has been urged to stand down from the cabinet pending an investigation into allegations that she claimed for overnight accommodation when she was staying with a friend rent free.
She is still facing a separate probe by a parliamentary watchdog over her claim for an accommodation allowance.
