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Last broadcast on Sun, 31 May 2009, 21:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
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Simon Cox gets behind the headlines engulfing MPs about their expenses and explores how the system of allowances was allowed to get out of control. The programme charts the origin of the row back to the enactment of freedom of information laws and reveals how proposed changes, which could have averted the crisis, were repeatedly thwarted by MPs themselves.
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Thu 28 May 200920:00
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Sun 31 May 200921:30
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