No more expenses cover-ups, vows PM

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The heavily-edited version of the records was described as a cover-up by campaigners.

But the Prime Minister, whose own claims were among those edited, insisted emergency reforms would ensure there would be no repeat of the practice in future.

"We are dealing with the problems that have arisen on Thursday in the new proposals we are putting forward." he told reporters at a press conference after the EU summit in Brussels.

"The redacted expenses were part of the old system; that cannot be the new system. The old system is being swept aside by the changes that we are making and a new, far more transparent system, is being introduced.

"While ensuring that security issues are addressed, as they have to be, our first principle must be maximum transparency.

"That will be part of the new legislation to set up an independent parliamentary regulator to take all these issues out of the hands of MPs.

"MPs must be able to do their jobs of course but the public must be able to hold us properly to account."

He spoke as Tory leader David Cameron said he would push for the publication of claims from 2008/9 to be published "as quickly as possible and in an uncensored form". Only strictly private information such as phone number and bank details should be redacted, he said.