Campaigners for information on MPs' expenses angry at blacked-out forms

Yesterday’s publication makes it abundantly clear that many of the most damaging revelations might never have been exposed if the House of Commons had been able to stick to its own plan for releasing members’ claims. Perhaps most starkly, the practice of “flipping” between different second homes for the purposes of claiming additional costs allowance, employed by Alistair Darling and others, is impossible to spot in Parliament’s version of the documents because all the addresses have been blacked out

Source: Times Online

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