A new year, and a potential opportunity to start doing things differently. If doing journalism differently this year is one of the things you're hoping to change, then I'm planning…
Happy New Year! And happy new FOI requests. Now is as good a time as any to send some off requests - NHS pressures and social care seem like areas…
The companion to Section 21 (and not just because both FOI officers and I frequently write one when we mean the other), is Section 22. If Section 21 is there to direct…
So I send a lot of Freedom of Information requests (count for last year was well in the thousands). Consequently, I get a lot of responses, a lot of refusals,…
Do you agree with the vision we have set out for the regulation of access to information rights? Yes, it sounds lovely, and a great thing for the ICO to aim…
If the Cabinet Office statistics for central government FOI-handling show cost is the most common reason you’ll find your request being refused, then coming in as the third most commonly used Freedom of…
Figures out yesterday (May 1, 2019) show that 55% of Freedom of Information requests refused by central government bodies in 2018 were rejected under Section 12, or cost limits. Given that…