Freedom of Information (Parliament)
Order 2009 Submitted by: 20 Jan 2009 - Updated
21 Jan 2009
On the 16th of May 2008 the High Court
ruled that MPs’ expenses must be published under the
Freedom of Information Act.
On Thursday 22nd January, MPs are voting
to change the law to keep their expenses secret after all,
just before publication was due and after spending nearly
a million of your pounds and seven months compiling the data.
Your MP may not even know about this
proposal (it was sneaked out under the Heathrow runway announcement).
By taking a few minutes you can alert
them to this attack on Parliamentary transparency and ask
them to vote against the measure.The
outcome of this vote will be prominently displayed on every
MP’s page until after the next General Election.
What can you do?
You can write to your MP to protest online >>
LINK <<
UPDATED
After a tremendous response with over
7,000 members on TheyWorkForYou Facebook group, 4,000 messages
sent to MPs, and a helpful 4th Report of the House of Lords
Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee, it appears that
the vote has been CANCELLED... Read
more...
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