Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said his home was filling up with food and flowers after the government made a ruling that ministers can only accept those items but not gifts worth more than RM500.

"I no longer get many gifts. When I was the prime minister the first time, I was gifted 26 cars which I returned and some I put at the Langkawi museum.

"What we can accept are food and flowers. Now there is a lot of food and flowers at my house.

"There are even people who delivered one tonne of dodol, fruits and I had to give them away," he told journalists after charing the Special Cabinet Committee on Anti-Corruption in Putrajaya.

The gift policy was introduced in June last year and applies to members of the administration ranging from ministers to political secretaries.