MP: Publishing expenses receipts could be ‘grubby and salacious’
Conservative MP David MacLean, who last year sponsored a controversial private member’s bill to exempt Parliament from the Freedom of…
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MPs are to be forced to publish details of more than a million receipts for shopping bills and other items…
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Journalist and freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke has welcomed this week’s High Court freedom of information ruling that the…
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ByPA uses FoI to reveal MPs second home furnishing
The Press Association has used the Freedom of Information Act to access a list detailing the maximum amount that MPs…
ByUS state legislature shows the way for Parliamentary transparency
Writing int he Mail on Sunday, Freedom of Information campaigner Heather Brooke contrasts the expenses regime in Parliament with that…
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