[<a href=”//storify.com/FOIdirectory/freedom-of-information-headlines-roundup-week-endi” target=”_blank”>View the story “Freedom of Information headlines/roundup week ending 23rd November 2012” on Storify</a>]<br /> <h1>Freedom of Information headlines/roundup week ending 23rd November 2012</h1> <h2>Freedom of Information act roundup of news from the United Kingdom for the week ending 23rd November. Created by @FOIDirectory. </h2> <p>Storified by FOI Directory · Fri, Nov 23 2012 05:55:22</p> <div><b>The story in the media the Freedom of Information has the most notoriety for is back. </b><b><br /></b><b>MPs’ expenses are under scrutiny again. This time they fall well within the guidelines governing them but appear to be at the deep end of the ethical swimming pool (it is a thing). </b><br /><b>Channel 4’s Dispatches show has revealed the list of 300 MPs’ landlords. Some of these include MPs renting from other MPs and claiming taxpayers money from it. </b></div> <div>Landlord list reveals names in new MPs’ expenses row – Channel 4 NewsThe new investigation into MPs’ expenses comes more than two years after new rules came in, banning MPs claiming expenses for mortgages b…</div> <div><b>The story quickly moved on from the initial publication with the media picking up that 50 MPs had their landlords’ details redacted in the FOI response. </b></div> <div>Row over MPs’ secret landlordsMPs are embroiled in a fresh expenses row after more than 50 of them were allowed to keep the name of their landlord secret for security …</div> <div>The list published so far is here. </div> <div>So for anyone looking for the #FOI request on #MPexpenses http://yfrog.com/oefq0ddjStuart Long</div> <div>You can watch the full Dispatches show, which includes a magical mystery tour to MPs’ houses here. </div> <div>Dispatches – 4oDDispatches on 4 on Demand. Watch Dispatches online when you want on 4oD. Using undercover filming, reporter Jackie Long investigates the …</div> <div><b>While we’re on MPs’ expenses. 135 MPs have claimed for 144 iPads. Seven MPs have claimed for 2 and one has claimed for three. </b></div> <div>Apple scruMPersPoliticians stocking up on iPads…all on expenses SHAMELESS MPs are stocking up on iPads on taxpayer-funded expenses. Freedom of Informa…</div> <div><b>The Scottish National Party have accused one FOI requester of wasting public money after it was revealed the individual submitted 85 requests to the government, over their summer recess. </b><b><br /></b><b>They say the individual’s requests have cost £23,000 and amounted for 14% of requests in that period. </b><b><br /></b>The criticism may be politically motivated as Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond told parliament last month that a labour researcher had accounted for the same percentage of requests as the unnamed individual. </div> <div>SNP attacks FOI ‘money-waster’The SNP has attacked an individual who submitted a series of requests for Scottish government information. The party accused the unnamed …</div> <div><b>Five 11-year-olds who are not even old enough to be legally able to drive have been banned from driving, a FOI request has revealed. </b><b><br /></b>In total 5,333 under-age offenders have been given driving bans since 2009.</div> <div>Britain’s youngest banned drivers revealedThousands have been disqualified before they’re old enough to drive</div> <div><b>Worrying figures have been revealed that children have been held in police cells for up to 24 hours because officer thought they were mentally ill. </b><b><br /></b><b>Last year alone there were 347 cases of children they suspected as being mentally ill being put behind bars. </b><b><br /></b>The children detained by police had not necessarily committed any crimes. </div> <div>Children detained in police cellsChildren as young as 11 were held in police cells in England and Wales in 2011 because officers thought they were mentally ill, the BBC h…</div> <div><b>For those interested in the technicalities of the act the new consultation into datasets has been opened and you can have your say until January 13th. </b></div> <div>Consultation opens on new draft code of practice for public authority datasets & FOI http://bit.ly/UgFusMMartin Rosenbaum</div> <div>Also the beloved FOI man has been blogging again. It’s worth a read. </div> <div>I’ve blogged about @iconews new Code of Practice on Anonymity at http://www.foiman.com/archives/689 #FOI #opendata #opengovFOI Man</div> <div><b>If you don’t follow us on Twitter you can skip to our profile and follow us via the Tweet below. While you’re there check out our list of the best FOI people in the country to follow. </b></div> <div>List of best people to follow in UK for #FOI. Inc @rosenbaum6 @newsbrooke @bainesy1969 @FoIManUK @FOIMonkey and more https://twitter.com/FOIdirectory/freedom-of-information-ukFOI Directory</div> <p>