A request for details of the $6 million budget of the P.E.I. legislature, including spending by the offices of the speaker, government members, and Opposition members, has been denied.

The legislature, unlike the rest of government, is protected from the province's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The budget also includes the offices of the conflict of interest commissioner and the information and privacy commissioner.

CBC News asked for specific breakdowns on expenditures by the speaker, including the costs of her executive assistant, travel costs and meal allowances, and cell phone costs, along with the costs of other support staff and professional services.

The same requests went to the Opposition and government members' offices. The requests were denied. There is no right to appeal under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, which was proclaimed in 2002.

The leaders of the two parties in the legislature both deferred the question to other authorities.

Anyone spending public money should be covered by the freedom of information legislations, says NDP Leader Mike Redmond. (CBC)

"The legislative assembly, I think, I'm not in charge of that," said Premier Robert Ghiz.

"That's the clerk of the legislature, so I think that that would be an issue for our legislative management committee."

'I don't know how that all breaks down," said Opposition leader Steven Myers.

"What I do know is that we do fill in a report every single year and we send it in to the clerk's office."

While the clerk of the legislature has the details, they are not being made public, and that doesn't sit well with NDP Leader Mike Redmond.

"When you're with dealing public money in any way shape or form, the public should have access to how you spend your money," said Redmond.

"Political institutions are the foundation of this province the public has the right to know how the money is being spent."