UK: MPs to censor their own expenses
MPs are to set to begin censoring their own expenses records before they are published.
London Telegraph >> 31st March 2009
Members will this week be shown copies of thousands of receipts and other documents due to be published under the Freedom of Information Act.
They will be invited to redact the documents, blacking out information they do not want to disclose.
The Commons is spending thousands of pounds paying security-cleared specialist contractors to remove any sensitive information like bank details from receipts.
But even after the contractors have vetted the documents, MPs will review their claims and make further changes of their own.