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Buzz Up! Print StoryDavid Cameron has pledged to remove the "cloak of secrecy" from government as ministers seek to reassure the markets that the departure of David Laws will not derail plans to tackle the deficit. Skip related content
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The Prime Minister is promising the public greater access to information including hospital superbug figures, street-by-street crime data, and itemised lists of Whitehall spending.
But he also faces the continuing fallout from the weekend resignation of Mr Laws, the highly-rated Chief Secretary to the Treasury who was seen as having made a successful start to the government's cost-cutting drive.
Already, there are fresh claims in the Daily Telegraph that Mr Laws' successor, Danny Alexander, had dodged capital gains when selling a property he designated to Parliament as his second home.
Aides to the Lib Dem MP insisted he had never "flipped" designations and simply followed tax rules, meaning people are not eligible for CGT if they own two homes, but sell one within three years.
Mr Alexander, a former PR chief for Cairngorms National Park Authority, is said to have owned the south London flat for six years before becoming an MP in 2005, when he told the parliamentary authorities it was his second home. At around the same time he purchased a constituency home in Scotland. According to the Telegraph, he claimed more than £37,000 in expenses on the flat before selling in June 2007....
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