North East MPs’ expenses claims finally published

Jun 19 2009 by Adrian Pearson, The Journal

Go to www.journallive.co.uk/expenses for our special section on MPs' expenses. Find out everything your MP claimed back in our full list of expenses – and see our MPs expenses in pictures gallery – highlighting the more outlandish claims.

Why are the lists blanked out?

HERE is a list of the information MPs were allowed to remove from the expenses disclosure:

:: Any residential address of a Member of either House of Parliament

:: Travel arrangements of a Member where the arrangements are regular in nature

:: The identity of any person who delivers or has delivered goods, or provides or has provided services, to a Member at any residence of the Member

:: Expenditure by a Member on security arrangements

:: All names of hotels/guest houses used

:: Correspondence or advice letters to or from Department of Resources/ DFA

:: Dates and times on till receipts where the name of the supplier is included

:: Bank and credit card statements (but mortgage or rental agreements or statements will be published to the following extent: (a) names of mortgagee/landlord/chargee (b) amount of interest and rent and (c) information contained on statements of account such as value of mortgage)

:: Itemised parts of telephone bills listing calls to individual numbers

:: Personal items on till receipts and invoices for which no claim has been made

:: Misfiled pages relating to another Member

:: Names and addresses and other details of members of staff on ‘C3’ forms (claims for staff expenses)

:: Other information that is not central to the purpose of the claim or which could aid identity fraud including:

:: Personal telephone numbers

:: Barcodes

:: Cost centres and departmental identification numbers personal data of third parties

:: Bank/Giro details

:: Photocopies of cheques

:: Account, invoice, delivery, order, NI or reference numbers

:: Signatures