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Your Right To Know
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A guide to the Freedom of Information Act & other access laws
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Home Office Shredders
What’s really amazing about the arrest of Opposition Immigration Minister Damian Green isn’t simply that such a thing has happened in a supposed democracy (though I’ve long maintained that the UK isn’t a democracy) but the simple existence of any Home Office documents available for him to leak in the first place! Green is accused [...]
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One pension for them, another for us
Sir Humphrey, of Yes Minister fame, once said: ?the public doesn?t know anything about wasting government money. We are the experts.? But he didn?t have FOI requests to think about. Every now and then since 2005, the public has glimpsed how ?expertly? our cash is wasted.
Often wastage is due to incompetence but another way our [...]
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Once: misfortune. Twice: foolishness. Twenty six times: expensive.
It seems that the officers at North Wales Police were having problems with their petrol. No matter how many times they put it into their diesel engines, their cars wouldn?t run on the stuff.
So in 2006, reports Walesonline.co.uk, the force introduced a bright yellow filler cap cover marked with the word ?diesel?. The flap is [...]
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Govt dept gets knuckes rapped for FOI delays
The ICO issued a ?formal practice recommendation? to the The Department for Communities and Local Government following delays of up to 400 days for processing freedom of information requests. All freedom of information act requests should be responded to within 20 working days unless special circumstances apply.
The ICO recommendation says:
In issuing this practice recommendation, the [...]
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Proud to be an American
I’m actually a dual UK/US citizen but today I feel extremely proud to be an American. This is what real democracy is all about. Barack Obama says it best:
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our [...]
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