Police PR spending up 13 per cent, FOI survey reveals
Police forces are spending nearly £40 million a year on public relations, a figure that has gone up 13 per…
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A million receipts to be released after MPs lose FoI appeal
MPs are to be forced to publish details of more than a million receipts for shopping bills and other items…
ByHeather Brooke welcomes MP expenses FoI victory
Journalist and freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke has welcomed this week’s High Court freedom of information ruling that the…
ByVideo: David Cameron at the British Press Awards
Conservative Leader David Cameron addressed journalists at the British Press Awards on Tuesday night. Speaking later to Press Gazette, Cameron…
ByMPs’ expenses unearthed after FoI victory
Prime minister Gordon Brown charged a Sky Sports subscription and his TV licence fee to expenses, newly released data obtained…
ByPA uses FoI to reveal MPs second home furnishing
The Press Association has used the Freedom of Information Act to access a list detailing the maximum amount that MPs…
ByUS state legislature shows the way for Parliamentary transparency
Writing int he Mail on Sunday, Freedom of Information campaigner Heather Brooke contrasts the expenses regime in Parliament with that…
ByCouncil PR chief: public sector must reject journalists’ ‘pointless muck-raking’ with FOI
The PR chief of a London borough council has argued that public sector press officers must defend themselves against journalists’…
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