Not surprised
Private Eye's been trying for TWO YEARS to get figures out of the government on who's been wining and dining whom, only to be told every time by every dept it was "...too expensive to gather the information..." - then find a mole in the dept who mentions over a beer that the figures are actually all there and ready.

Was only a matter of time till they start legislating certain bits to make them secret.

Maybe it's national security. Maybe there'd be queues of people sneaking in to MP's local branches of Harrods to fill the lightbulbs with semtex, if only they knew which branch and what bulbs.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 23:34, Reply)