MPs concerned with Speaker’s expenses review as journalist prepares FOI challenge
MPs including Gordon Brown and David Cameron are growing frustrated with the “sedate pace” of a review into MPs expenses…
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Downing Street refuses FOI request about Brown’s meetings with Murdoch
Gordon Brown has refused to detail his meetings with Rupert Murdoch under the Freedom of Information, according to Monday’s Independent.…
ByTribunal case could bring MPs expenses under FOI
Journalist Heather Brooke is this week taking on the House of Commons at the Information Tribunal in a case that…
ByFOI review should reflect changed public sector boundaries, says Straw
The Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said that the on-going government consultation into the Freedom of Information Act 2000 should reflect how the…
ByMedia thwarted in bid to see Weddell bail transcripts
Journalists’ have so far been thwarted in their attempts to see the transcripts of bail proceedings in the case of…
ByManchester Evening News in Martin Amis FoI exclusive
The Manchester Evening News has used the Freedom of Information Act to reveal that author Martin Amis is paid almost…
ByIs the BBC an unfair target for FoI requests?
The BBC has “taken the brunt” of a large number of Freedom of Information requests and become an unfair target,…
ByWhy are civil servants Googling journalists who make FOI requests?
Why is someone at the Cabinet Office Googling journalist James Ball? Ball, who has recently been doing some work around…
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