The release of tens of thousands of claim forms and receipts on the Parliament website more than a year after the High Court ordered their publication is likely to lead to demands for greater openness.
Click on the links for details of each MP's expenses:
Manchester Withington - John Leech
Manchester Central - Tony Lloyd
It is impossible to identify many of the abuses which came out as a result of the earlier leak of the same material to the Daily Telegraph before crucial details were blacked out, or 'redacted'.
There are no addresses for MPs' homes, meaning it would have been virtually impossible to identify so-called “flipping”, whereby MPs switch the designation of their second properties to maximise their claims.
Also redacted are the names and details of people and companies to whom payments were made using expenses.
Correspondence between MPs and the Commons Fees Office has also been removed.
Today's official publication covers printed documents and receipts relating to MPs' claims between 2004/05 and 2007/08 for a series of parliamentary allowances, but with many personal details redacted.
These include claims under the £24,000-a-year additional costs allowance, which reimburses MPs for the cost of having to maintain a second home while serving at Westminster; the £22,000 incidental expenses provision, which pays for running an office; and the £10,400 communications allowance, which covers the cost of newsletters and websites to inform constituents about their activities, as well as details of expenditure on stationery and postage.
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Keeping an eye on Kaufman et al, Didsbury (18/06/2009 at 14:05)
Add the other Manchester MPs!
Lee Swettenham, MENWN Website editor (18/06/2009 at 14:17)
For north Manchester details you need to go to the sister website - www.nemadvertiser.co.uk
Keeping an eye on Kaufman et al, Didsbury (18/06/2009 at 16:24)
Groucho F (18/06/2009 at 17:04)
Were it otherwise, I suspect we would have heard by now from the prospective Labour candidate.
If I were living in Gorton, I'd be suggesting an OAP home (with a TV) for the dreadful Kaufmann.
Andrew Chambers (19/06/2009 at 11:26)
Keeping an eye on Kaufman et al, Didsbury (19/06/2009 at 17:30)
Good on him if you ask me - how many other people can honestly say they would have claimed as little has he did?
Groucho F (19/06/2009 at 22:05)
Andrew Chambers (21/06/2009 at 23:27)
Groucho F (23/06/2009 at 22:15)
As far as I'm concerned John Leach, local man, who understands what happens round here, is good enough for me.
And, I'm sorry, I HAVE to compare him with everyone else....there again, maybe you want to get rid of all MPs.