Westminster Gravy Train (C4 tonight)
In May 2008, freedom-of-information campaigner Heather Brooke won a court battle that should have prompted the release of all politicians’ expense claims. A year later, with those expenses still to be published and the flow of leaked information ever increasing, Heather studies the information that is available to piece together a forensic insight into how public money is being spent.
As well as a series of apparent inconsistencies and hard-to-explain expense claims, Dispatches investigates the controversial role of patronage and lobbying in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords – to what extent can this serve personal rather than public interests?
The programme also shows the damage that has been caused by protracted delays in releasing MPs full expenses, and asks how harmful these claims may be to the reputation of Parliament and its members.
Article by Heather Brooke on the Channel 4 website.
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7pm Sunday 19 April 2009 Channel 4
02:25 Tuesday 21 April 2009 Channel 4
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Heather Brooke was also a contributor to the Liberal Conspiracy bloggers summit at the Convention on Modern Liberty (video here).
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