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• 04.09.12
  Why charging for FOI requests will generate more red tape than cash foi, Uncategorized | (0)

  The Government's plans to charge for FOI requests are really rather disappointing as the Government has previously had a relatively good record on FOI and in 2010, Eric Pickles even spoke out against Local Councils charging journalists for making FOI requests: "If town halls want to reduce the amount they spend on responding to freedom of information requests they should consider making the information freely available in the first place." My aim in this blog post though is not to explain why charging for accountability is bad in principle but to explain the practical difficulties and additional bureaucracy that ...
• 02.13.12
  What they knew foi, wdtk | (1)

  A guest post by @FOIMonkey.Here are 366 Interesting things that we know because of FOI requests made using WhatDoTheyKnow.com - one for every day of the leap year. This list focuses mainly on information released during the last six months. Our right to access information is about to come under attack from those who want to use the process of post-legislative scrutiny to weaken the Freedom of Information Act and we need to do all we can to defend it. As this shows, FOI works. Let's keep it that way. 1) The name of every street in the country, from 'B' ...
• 05.07.10
  Freedom of Information in a hung parliament foi, transparency | (0)

  OK, so the economy is the big issue in this election and FOI isn't and probably never will be but it does matter as FOI can arm the public information about public services, public spending and decision making. Right now the full result of the election are not known but we do know that no one party has an overall majority. I am optimistic about the opportunities that a hung parliament presents for achieving better FOI laws an greater transparency.Minority Government means majority non-governmentIn general Governments have more to lose from increased transparency and opposition parties have more ...
• 04.20.10
  UKIP tell me their policy on Freedom of Information foi, ukip | (0)

  Recently CFOI compared the position of the three main parties on Freedom of Information based on there manifestoes.I wanted to find out about some of the other parties' policies, UKIP have replied today:"...Thank you for your email, which has been passed on to me as a member of the UKIP policy team.UKIP supports the right for the British people to find out more from government about how decisions are made, information the government keeps on government business and where the government spends our money. The Freedom of Information Act is an invaluable tool to empower the British people.Best wishes, ...
• 01.24.10
  Ministers will go to court to avoid disclosing state spending on Royal Family foi, royal | (0)

  "Ministers are to go to court to try to stop The Independent from seeing secret correspondence which could shed light on how public money has been spent on the Royal Family."Source: Indepenent

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