Memoirs of a Minor Public Figure – Des Wilson’s memoirs
Des Wilson was a pioneering, high-profile and controversial campaigner who then ran elections for the Liberals / Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
Read my posts about the Freedom of Information legislation in the UK.
Des Wilson was a pioneering, high-profile and controversial campaigner who then ran elections for the Liberals / Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
Unnecessarily burdensome paperwork identified: 2010. Solution now promised: 2013. … Read the full post »
Security and safety for MPs is important – and after the last fuss there was a change in the law to let MPs and candidates keep their home addresses secret on public election paperwork. … Read the full post »
Islington Council in north London has published personal information, including the sexuality, of almost 2,500 residents online. … Read the full post »
Back in 2010 I took up the issue of paperwork gone mad at the Ministry of Justice, using a series of Freedom of Information requests to reveal the ludicrously over-bureaucratic safe driving policies. … Read the full post »
Last week the Green Investment Bank made its first loans, as Nick Clegg mentioned yesterday, and this week the Protection of Freedoms Bill received Royal Assent and became an Act, as Tom Brake wrote about. … Read the full post »
The BBC reports how local councils are helping people who work for them avoid tax, including Hackney Council in London. … Read the full post »
Nick Clegg said, “We want a truly open society, in which every man and woman will be able to go as far as their talent, ambition and effort take them”. … Read the full post »
The Guardian’s story is not so much a case of a clever use of Freedom of Information requests to unearth a secret as a case of missing what was there in plain view. … Read the full post »
A simple quiz question for you: courtesy of some Freedom of Information requests we know which newspapers are delivered to Ministers’ offices each day. … Read the full post »