Government’s FOI guidelines breach deemed ‘corrosive to our democracy’ by Labour MP
All FOI requests should be dealt with equally and on an ‘applicant blind’ basis’.
All FOI requests should be dealt with equally and on an ‘applicant blind’ basis’.
Campaigners call for transparency after police force claims it doesn’t know how much policing Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding will cost taxpayers.
The Grenfell tragedy exposed the use of deadly construction methods in for-profit buildings. New evidence shows hundreds more public buildings may be at risk
Scotland’s Information Commissioner has warned that complex changes to the way that public services are delivered are harming the public’s ability to access information in the way that they should be able to. Launching her annual report, Rosemary Agnew hastest
Alex Hern reports on the news that civil servants want to gut the FoI act.
Lisa Nandy writes about Michael Gove and his dodging the question over whether he’s working with the freedom of information act
The Coalition’s self-appointed champion of governmental transparency, Eric Pickles, has been criticised for failing to release information over potentially defamatory comments made about chair of the Electoral Commission, Jenny Watson, who his Department of Community and Local Government (DCLG) accused of building her “career on incompetence” and “milking the taxpayer”.