Liberal Democrat conference and security checks #ldconf
The rolling saga that is security checks for people attending Liberal Democrat conference has generated a lot of heat, some light – and a fair degree of confusion. … Read the full post »
Read my posts about the Freedom of Information legislation in the UK.
The rolling saga that is security checks for people attending Liberal Democrat conference has generated a lot of heat, some light – and a fair degree of confusion. … Read the full post »
Imagine you are a journalist working on one of the many titles that the Information Commissioner found was involved in dubious practices to get hold of personal information about people. … Read the full post »
London taxpayers will foot a total bill of £46.7 million for replacement bus services for the Tube. … Read the full post »
I never got round to writing up my interest in fake owls as the story petered out, but someone else has stumbled on my Freedom of Information request. … Read the full post »
Plans for CORE – a centralised electoral register database – have been scrapped by the Government 11 years after the database was first meant to become available. … Read the full post »
The Royal Household is not a public authority within the meaning of the FOI Acts, and is therefore exempt from their provisions. … Read the full post »
Two snippets of news about freedoms – a reminder of the importance of libel law reform and good news on extending freedom of information. … Read the full post »
The Information Commissioner has announced that 33 public sector bodies have so regularly broken the rules on responding to Freedom of Information requests that they have been put in special measures. … Read the full post »
David Davis has had a remarkable change of tune on freedom of information. Or perhaps Prime Minister David Cameron has just gagged him? … Read the full post »
So there he was, sat in the House of Commons listening to Jack Straw announce his decision to veto the Information Tribunal’s decision that the Cabinet minutes of the decision to go to war in Iraq should be released. … Read the full post »