About publishing receipts. Currently MPs collect receipts, write down which sum they claim (all or part of the receipt bottom line) and send somewhere to get money in exchange? Writing on a paper, that gets read by someone else and typed into a spreadsheet? Seems like double work. Actually, I'd suspect most MPs make spreadsheets thenselves for their own bookkeeping. And maybe for statistical experiments.
So actually MPs could type the claimed sum (per receipt) directly into the main system, and access their sums, totals, trends and if needed download this for their bookkeeping. Maybe if they do categorize, they even get to see if they are above or below average per category or whatever. If they type the claimed sum per receipt, they could maybe even photograph the receipt at the same time? With a cellphone, and send as an MMS. (Time for a mashup?) Still those photos need redacting, maybe by a professional using a touchscreen? And someone still needs to look at the actual paper trail once in a while to discourage cut&paste - which does happen (in Sweden). /Simon > > It would piss me off if the MP's expenses were left > > similarly apathetically on the shelf when they come > > out. We have to do something -- at least file them by > > MP on a single page with all the scanned images. > > 653 similarly-worded FOI requests from 653 different individuals, each > making explicit that they don't mind if their request is bundled with > the other 652, may provide a powerful incentive -- even for the House > authorities -- to just publish the spreadsheets. >
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