In May 2008, freedom-of-information campaigner Heather Brooke won a court battle that should have prompted the release of all politicians’ expense claims. A year later, with those expenses still to be published and the flow of leaked information ever increasing, Heather studies the information that is available to examine how public money is being spent. As well as a series of inconsistencies and hard-to-explain expense claims, this programme investigates the controversial role of patronage and lobbying in both houses and questions to what extent this serves personal rather than public interests.

Sunday 19 April 2009
7:00pm, Channel 4