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Saturday, June 20, 2009

MPs Spent £1.2 million Hiding Expenses

Blacking out many of the most interesting and controversial details of MPs’ expenses was an expensive operation carried out on Parliament’s instructions by the Stationery Office, the privatised publisher of official documents.

The company was contracted by the House of Commons to prepare the claims for release after Parliament lost a three-year legal battle with journalists and freedom of information campaigners to keep the information secret.

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