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Excesses covered up and 1.2m claims fail transparency test
THE House of Commons last night stood accused of spending more than GBP 2 million on a bungled cover-up, after publishing details of MPs' expenses with huge swathes blacked out.See the full content of this document
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Blackwash Outrage As Mps 'Publish' Their Expenses
Critics said the heavily-edited disclosure showed the worst abuses at Westminster would never have come to light without a complete version being leaked.
Records of 1.2 million claims were finally put on the parliament website at 6am yesterday, after a four-year Freedom of Information battle. They included a wealth of detail about the...See the full content of this document
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