Assembly to publish full expenses
All details of MLAs’ expenses dating back to April 2003 are to be published on the assembly’s website, it has been announced.
The commission which manages assembly affairs has said the details should be available online by the end of November.
Until now MLAs’ expenses have only been published under broad headings such as office costs and travel.
Stormont Speaker Willie Hay said greater transparency was needed.
“Since the restoration of devolution, the assembly has been taking steps to progressively put more information on MLA expenses into the public domain,” said Mr Hay.
“This move is the latest in our efforts to do that.
“People want, and deserve to know, how their money is being spent. We must do all we can to make transparency the norm, not the exception.”
The assembly had earlier said it would only publish all MLAs’ expenses from April 2009.
