Penrith and the Border MP David Maclean has claimed that legislation he was trying to introduce to protect the disclosure of constituency correspondence had been "deliberately sabotaged." Mr Maclean introduced the Private Members Bill to make both Houses of Parliament exempt from the Freedom of Information Act as he did not want letters written on behalf of constituents to be published. Mr Maclean said he deeply regretted that a tiny minority of MPs had "deliberately wrecked" his Bill by talking at length on amendments so that it ran out of time and stood no chance of becoming law.