Troughgate: caught out by information

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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 [...]

Don’t blame ‘the system’

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The blazing row about MPs expenses is an unsavoury and dismal situation, for sure – but there are important Systems lessons to be drawn from the debacle.

In the UK a stream of embarrassing revelations about highly questionable expenses claims has meant that Members of Parliament have spent the week universally condemning [...]