What they didn't want you to know: A list of intriguing facts disinterred by the Freedom of Information Act.

 

»Ministers and MPs were claiming thousands of pounds on taxis as part of £5.9m in expenses for travel

»The Thatcher Government concocted a plan to search for the Loch Ness monster using a team of dolphins

»Foreign diplomats – who have diplomatic immunity – were accused of rapes, sexual assaults, child abuse and murders while working in Britain

»The Government agreed a £1.5m bailout of one of the most troubled schools in its flagship city academies programme ten days before the 2005 general election

»Politicians are spending £2.2bn a year of taxpayers’ money on private management consultants

»Ted Heath was once offered concert work by Idi Amin of Uganda. The eccentric dictator made his offer in a 1977 telegram

»Ian Huntley was officially “eliminated†as a suspect six days into the investigation into the Soham murders

»Thousands of women are getting breast enlargements, tummy-tucks and nose jobs on the NHS

»Weapons used by paratroopers on Bloody Sunday have ended up in the hands of the army in Sierra Leone, paramilitary police in Beirut and even in an Arkansas gun shop

»Seventy-four police officers serving with the Metropolitan Police have criminal records

»Senior civil servants in the Home Office were paid more than £2m in bonuses despite the scandals that have engulfed the department

»A clandestine British torture programme existed in postwar Germany, “reminiscent of the concentration campsâ€

»Britain helped Israel to obtain its nuclear bomb 40 years ago, by selling it 20 tonnes of heavy water

Britain has extradited four times as many people to the US as have been sent in return since the introduction of fast-track extradition

»Health tourists received free NHS kidney treatment worth about £30,000 a year, potentially competing with British patients for scarce transplants

DNA tests showed that, since 1998, 3,034 men had been wrongly named by mothers as fathers of children for whom they had claimed maintenance. The taxpayer had to repay these sums

»Robert Maxwell was being investigated for war crimes and was to be interviewed by police just before he drowned

»In 2004 the BBC paid £15.5m in staff bonuses when it was planning to cut more than 3,000 jobs

Countries with poor human rights records and those on the front line in the War on Terror, including Iraq, were targeted by the Ministry of Defence as the most lucrative places for British arms companies to sell weapons

>Illegal immigrants are getting into Britain by enrolling on university courses, obtaining visas and then failing to turn up to study

>In one year hundreds of 10»year»old children were charged with crimes including serious sexual offences, robbery, actual bodily harm and assaulting a police officer

 

 

 

What they didn't want you to know: A list of intriguing facts disinterred by the Freedom of Information Act.

 

»Ministers and MPs were claiming thousands of pounds on taxis as part of £5.9m in expenses for travel

»The Thatcher Government concocted a plan to search for the Loch Ness monster using a team of dolphins

»Foreign diplomats – who have diplomatic immunity – were accused of rapes, sexual assaults, child abuse and murders while working in Britain

»The Government agreed a £1.5m bailout of one of the most troubled schools in its flagship city academies programme ten days before the 2005 general election

»Politicians are spending £2.2bn a year of taxpayers’ money on private management consultants

»Ted Heath was once offered concert work by Idi Amin of Uganda. The eccentric dictator made his offer in a 1977 telegram

»Ian Huntley was officially “eliminated†as a suspect six days into the investigation into the Soham murders

»Thousands of women are getting breast enlargements, tummy-tucks and nose jobs on the NHS

»Weapons used by paratroopers on Bloody Sunday have ended up in the hands of the army in Sierra Leone, paramilitary police in Beirut and even in an Arkansas gun shop

»Seventy-four police officers serving with the Metropolitan Police have criminal records

»Senior civil servants in the Home Office were paid more than £2m in bonuses despite the scandals that have engulfed the department

»A clandestine British torture programme existed in postwar Germany, “reminiscent of the concentration campsâ€

»Britain helped Israel to obtain its nuclear bomb 40 years ago, by selling it 20 tonnes of heavy water

Britain has extradited four times as many people to the US as have been sent in return since the introduction of fast-track extradition

»Health tourists received free NHS kidney treatment worth about £30,000 a year, potentially competing with British patients for scarce transplants

DNA tests showed that, since 1998, 3,034 men had been wrongly named by mothers as fathers of children for whom they had claimed maintenance. The taxpayer had to repay these sums

»Robert Maxwell was being investigated for war crimes and was to be interviewed by police just before he drowned

»In 2004 the BBC paid £15.5m in staff bonuses when it was planning to cut more than 3,000 jobs

Countries with poor human rights records and those on the front line in the War on Terror, including Iraq, were targeted by the Ministry of Defence as the most lucrative places for British arms companies to sell weapons

>Illegal immigrants are getting into Britain by enrolling on university courses, obtaining visas and then failing to turn up to study

>In one year hundreds of 10»year»old children were charged with crimes including serious sexual offences, robbery, actual bodily harm and assaulting a police officer

 

I knew about that one. They'd have been more likely to discover Nessie than to discover a Scottish Tory voter. :lol: