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	Section 60 code response
	Response to the Scottish Executive's consultation on the code of practice to be issued under section 60 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act providing guidance to public authorities on best practice. Added November 2003
	FOI "needs higher profile"
	Press release warning that Scottish public authorities need to do  more to prepare for the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act. Added 26 September 2003
	FOI Act will have teeth only if it is seen as a symbol of honesty
	This letter to the Financial Times followed an article on the Hutton Inquiry. The letter argues that the government, which is looking at ways of restoring its credibility, should commit itself to the FOI Act, and start by renouncing the veto. Added September 2003
	'A window on the mind of No 10
	This article, which appeared in the Guardian on 29 August 2003, comments on the implications of the Hutton Inquiry for open government. It argues that any serious attempt by the Government to restore trust must be based on a policy of openness, regardless of whether the facts are incovenient or embarrassing.
	10 July 2003
	Government "puts two fingers up to openness code and Ombudsman". Added 10 July 2003
	Code of Practice on Access to Government Information - Guidance on Interpretation   600 kb
	The Campaign has produced an electronic version of the Government's Guidance on Interpretation of the open government code. This has not been available on the Internet before and has been reproduced with the permission of the Department for Constitutional Affairs (formerly the Lord Chancellor's Department).
	Challenge to secrecy over private sector staff in Whitehall
	Updated June 2003. Code of Practice requests and correspondence with government departments over revealing the identities of private sector staff working on secondment in government departments. Government departments initially refused to identify seconded staff, claiming that the Data Protection Act prohibited them from doing so unless the individuals themselves agreed to be indentified. The Campaign argued that the DPA permitted disclosure even where the individuals had refused consent. After three years of correspondence the government finally accepted that the Campaign's view was correct.
	Data Protection Act subject access consultation response     164 kb
	The Campaign has published its response to the consultation by the Lord Chancellor's Department on the subject access provisions of the Data Protection Act. It is calling for people to have the right (a) to know when information has been withheld from them under one of the DPA exemptions; (b) to be able to appeal to the Information Tribunal against decisions of the Information Commissioner, and (c) for the DPA exemptions to be made subject to a public interest test. Added March 2003
	Broken commitments on access to health records
	The Campaign has challenged the Department of Health's refusal to reveal papers of a body advising ministers about the fees charged to patients asking to see their health records. Although the Department claims that releasing any of the papers would harm the frankness of internal discussion, the Campaign points out that independent members of the body have been told that they are free to circulate the papers within their own organisations. The Campaign has also revealed that official guidance on access to health records breaks explicit commitments made by ministers to Parliament and says that the public interest now requires disclosure.   Added 25 February 2003
	'Freedom of Information'
	This article by Maurice Frankel on the FOI Act appeared in the October/November 2002 edition of 'Progress' magazine.   Added 14 January 2003
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