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ICO FOI backlog remains high

The Information Commissioner’s Office has disclosed a dataset of its active FOI caseload in response to an FOI request by the Campaign. It shows that on 25th April 2022: There were 2,272 active cases. (This is a slight reduction on the 2,317 cases in data disclosed to Martin Rosenbaum in August 2021). The oldest case […]

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Procurement Bill and FOI

The Procurement Bill, which reforms the UK’s public procurement regime following Brexit, has its second reading in the House of Lords on 25th May 2022. The Campaign has written to peers setting out why the Bill should extend the Freedom of Information Act to cover all information held by public sector contractors about their contracts with

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Campaign calls for parliamentary committee to investigate Cabinet Office’s FOI role

The Campaign, like openDemocracy and others, has written to the chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee asking the Committee to investigate the role of the Cabinet Office in relation to the Freedom of Information Act and the wider problem of enforcement of the Act’s timeliness requirements.

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Campaign’s evidence to Greensill inquiry calls for FOIA to be strengthened

The Campaign has submitted evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry into the propriety of governance in light of Greensill. It says that without FOIA the extent of the company’s efforts to persuade the government to provide it with financial support, and the extraordinarily insistent lobbying by the former prime minister David

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