Is your MEP among the 47 who voted to keep their expense claims secret?

*You can get the full list of your local MEPs by entering your postcode at www.writethem.com*

The website “Open Europe” has done an excellent league table of MEP’s voting record on accountability and transparency ahead of tomorrow’s election. The list shows clearly that it is not just in the UK Parliament that elected representatives have been working hard to cover up their exorbitant expense claims. If anything, the situation appears to be even worse in the European Parliament, where the MEPs’ useage of public money has been a closely-guarded secret.

The following list, extrapolated from the “Open Europe” league table, identifies the UK MEPs who voted to cover up their expense claims.

Mr Sajjad	Karim MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Richard	Ashworth MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Struan	Stevenson MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Malcolm	Harbour MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Chris	Heaton-Harris MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Charles	Tannock MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Philip	Bushill-Matthews MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Martin	Callanan MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Neil	Parish MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Timothy	Kirkhope MEP	Conservative Party
Mr John	Purvis MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Philip	Bradbourn MEP	Conservative Party
Mr John	Bowis MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Daniel	Hannan MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Robert	Sturdy MEP	Conservative Party
Mr James	Elles MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Christopher	Beazley MEP	Conservative Party
Sir Robert	Atkins MEP	Conservative Party
Dr Caroline	Jackson MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Densmore	Dover MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Nirj	Deva MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Giles	Chichester MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Jonathan	Evans MEP	Conservative Party
Mr Jim	Allister MEP QC	Independent
Mr Tom	Wise MEP	Independent
Mr Robert	Kilroy-Silk MEP	Independent (elected as UK Independence Party; resigned party whip October 2004)
Ms Glenis	Willmott MEP	Labour Party
Mrs Catherine	Stihler MEP	Labour Party
Ms Neena	Gill MEP	Labour Party
Mr David	Martin MEP	Labour Party
Ms Mary	Honeyball MEP	Labour Party
Mr Robert	Evans MEP	Labour Party
Mr Gary	Titley MEP	Labour Party
Mr Claude	Moraes MEP	Labour Party
Mr Richard	Howitt MEP	Labour Party
Mr Stephen	Hughes MEP	Labour Party
Mr Brian	Simpson MEP	Labour Party
Mr Glyn	Ford MEP	Labour Party
Mr Richard	Corbett MEP	Labour Party
Ms Eluned	Morgan MEP	Labour Party
Mr Peter	Skinner MEP	Labour Party
Mr Michael	Cashman MEP	Labour Party
The Baroness	Ludford MEP	Liberal Democrats
The Baroness	Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP	Liberal Democrats
Ms Baibre	de Brún MEP MLA	Sinn Fein
Mr Roger	Knapman MEP	UK Independence Party
Mr James	Nicholson MEP	Ulster Unionist Party

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