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Information has played a vital role in the raging furore over MPs expenses.
The whole thing began a few years ago, with newspaper attempts to obtain details of expenses by using the Freedom of Information Act; an initiative that did not go down well with many of our elected representatives.
They [MPs] subsequently fought tooth and nail to preserve their privacy about how they spend large sums of our money. Eventually, though, the legal system prevailed and MPs faced the prospect of greater transparency – and the potential embarrassment over their past behaviour.
