Nova Scotia schoolchildren will soon benefit from the MLA expense scandal after the former Lunenburg West member of the legislature returned computers bought with taxpayer money.

On Wednesday, former Conservative MLA Carolyn Bolivar-Getson returned a slew of office equipment from her old constituency office, including several computers, to a Nova Scotia government warehouse in Dartmouth.

"The computers will go to the 'computers for school' program," Bruce Wood, manager of inventory control the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, said Wednesday.

Earlier this month, Auditor General Jacques Lapointe criticized "excessive and inappropriate" spending by the 52 members of the legislature. After his report, former Conservative MLAs Bolivar-Getson and Bill Dooks promised to return items they bought for their constituency offices.

Bolivar-Getson sent back a generator, a 42-inch plasma television, three cameras, printers and computers. She even returned Christmas decorations, including a Christmas angel.

Dooks returned a shredder and portable generator last Friday.

"I would say this is on the higher side of the surplus that we normally do get," Wood told CBC News.

Most of the returned items will be distributed to other government departments. For example, one of the generators will be sent to an Emergency Health Services for use at a satellite ambulance base.

So far, Dooks and Bolivar-Getson are the only people to return items.

Under House rules in effect until recently, former MLAs were allowed to keep any office furniture they bought while serving in the legislature.