Posts tagged: transparency

Some more facts about SpotlightOnSpend for FullFact.org


8 July 2010

A website dedicated to getting behind the spin decides to take Spikes Cavell’s word that they’re doing a great job on council spending data transparency.

MPs’ expenses: Forget fiddling the rules, give us live data and real transparency


1 April 2009

What a squalid mess our system for reimbursing MPs’ expenses is. Whether it’s Mr Jacqui Smith’s much-publicised solo viewing habits, the inevitable confusion among highly-paid, highly-skilled representatives about first and second homes, or the shameless London MPs claiming for a second home despite being within easy commuting distance of Parliament, things have got to change. [...]