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  Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill - MPs' expenses
  
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  <p>The majority voted against limiting which parts of MPs business would be made secret, to matters concerning only their expenses.[1]</p>
  
  <p>There was, at the time, a battle over the disclosure of the detailed MPs' expenses,[2] which was ultimately lost on appeal to the Information Tribunal.[3]  This vote tested whether the MPs were unhappy with their expenses being revealed, or whether they really meant to make everything relating to Parliament and their correspondence to other government departments secret.[4]</p>
  
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  <li>[1] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2007-04-20b.551.3#g551.4">Clause 1 â Exemption of House of Commons and House of Lords</a>, Simon Hughes MP (20 April 2007).</li>
  <li>[2] <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2007/04/mps_expenses_what_next.html">MPs' expenses - what next?</a>, Martin Rosenbaum, BBC (27 April 2007).</li>
  <li>[3] <a href="http://www.informationtribunal.gov.uk/Documents/decisions/corpofficer_house_of_commons_v_infocomm.pdf"># The Corporate Officer of the House of Commons (on Behalf of the House of Commons) v the Information Commissioner, pdf (9 August 2007)</li>
  <li>[4] <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmbills/039/07039.i-i.html#NewClause">Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill</a> to the <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00036--p.htm#sch1">Freedom of Information Act 2000</a></li>
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