By: Russ
MediaGuardian on Freedom of Information Act requests
Great article in yesterday’s MediaGuardian by David Leigh and Rob Evans about the frail arguments being put forth by the U.K. government to reduce the cost and amount of Freedom of Information (FOI) Act requests, particularly those submitted by journalists.
After skewering the government’s estimate of the burden of FOI requests, the authors write:
A government serious about changing the culture of secrecy would ditch these brazen proposals and instead tackle the real problems - departments that do not answer requests at all, delay their replies for months or obstruct disclosure by citing innumerable spurious reasons for secrecy. But that is a different story.
The Frontier Economics research report criticised by the MediaGuardian is here (67-page .pdf).
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