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All MPs’ expenses to be published online

Date published: 13 June 2009

Rochdale MPs will be forced to publish every expense claim they make on the internet as part of Gordon Brown’s plan to clean up Parliament.

The Prime Minister said although Parliament had already agreed to restrict expenses, cap costs for housing and for all spending to be receipted, it did not go far enough.

The scandal of MPs’ expenses rocked Westminster for weeks with outrageous claims being uncovered including an £8,000 TV, £10,000 claimed for an interior designer and MPs claiming for phantom mortgages.

Mr Brown told the Commons: “All MPs’ past and future expenses should and will be published on the internet.

“I believe that most members of Parliament enter public life so they can serve the public interest. The vast majority of MPs work hard for their constituents.

“But all of us have to have the humility to accept that public confidence has been shaken and the battered reputation of this institution cannot be repaired without fundamental change.”

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Mr. Brown MP,
I may be being a bit of a nit picker, but I would like to see the old rules destroyed. And replaced with something more than saying ALL MPs will have to publish their expenses on the internet. It should also be printed in one or two national newspaper.

You see I have been bitten now I am twice shy. I am a Labour party member, who is not a floating voter. So us member have to be kept up to speed, like you have been doing all along.