Speaker Election Nomination Forms
Interesting FOI request to get the nominations forms for the Speaker Election. →Read more
Public want disclosure of royal finances
“62% of people want details of the royal family’s public spending to be fully available. “ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6591257.ece →Read more
What price would you pay to let UK citizens know the law they are subject to?
The Privy Council has refused to provide me with a list of all the Orders of the Privy Council which are part of UK law. I was not even asking for the Orders themselves I just requested a list. The Privy Council refused on cost grounds. It would in theory be possible for me to […] →Read more
Freedom of Redaction Act – what the House of Commons won’t release
I can’t believe some of the redaction that has been going on. We are not allowed to know that this MPs on the TV Licence fee receipt the logo of TV Licensing had been removed. Why? As far as I know only one organisation in the UK can issue TV Licenses did they not think […] →Read more
Is the Students Loan Company misleading people?
I believe this claim in their “A Guide Terms and Conditions” is misleading: “however long it takes you to repay your loan you will pay no more, in real terms than, you actually borrowed” This could only be a true if the amount owed was reduced when inflation was negative. I may be wrong but […] →Read more
Royals secret lobbying for better tax treatment of expenses?
In theTreasury’s response to a Freedom of Information Act they tried to redact some text using black highlighting but if you select the text you can read it! That’s what I call Freedom of Information! We now know that: “Sir Michael Peat, The Prince of Wales’ Principal Private Secretary, has written to Dave Hartnett asking […] →Read more
don’t let the Government get away with it
Don’t let the Government get away with taking your freedom of information rights away just when they are starting to make a difference. They want to make it harder for you to get information about the cabinet and about royals. If anything we need more and better rights not less. Join this group now and […] →Read more
Birmingham Mail runs story based on FOI request
Birmingham City Council spent £53,000 on bottled water The original FOI request I made is here: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bottled_water_2 →Read more
Clerk of Parliament’s expenses
I finally got a response from the House of Commons to my request for an internal review. The House in effect conceded that its original interpretation of the law was wrong and agreed to provide the information I had asked for. It seems strange to win an argument with a branch of the legislature on […] →Read more
Referendum 2010
More details here: Referendum 2010 “Our message is simple and strong: real change, not just new faces. An end to safe seats and seeming jobs for life for some MPs. Remove the power that MPs have to decide how they are elected … and give that to the voters instead. Bring in greater accountability for […] →Read more