News / Government gathered data on NHS medic who fought for Covid transparency Exclusive: Health department admits it would take 18 months to sift all the info it has gathered on Moosa Qureshi By Tommy Greene / 30 Nov 2023
News / Cabinet Office excludes journalists from its Freedom of Information group Experts condemn ‘missed opportunity’ after government fails to invite them to new group reviewing FOI By Jenna Corderoy / 12 Jul 2023
News / Government ‘misinformation’ unit flagged investigative journalism and critics Exclusive: openDemocracy investigation on Westminster secrecy was monitored by shadowy Cabinet Office unit By Jenna Corderoy / 1 Feb 2023
Feature / What we discovered via Freedom of Information this year From secret government units to the failings of the Met Police, here’s what openDemocracy revealed via FOI in 2022 By Jenna Corderoy / 29 Dec 2022
News / Government’s ‘Orwellian’ unit to be disbanded after openDemocracy revelations ‘Clearing House’ axed two years after we revealed controversial unit was vetting Freedom of Information requests By Jenna Corderoy / 25 Aug 2022
News / Government rejects MPs’ transparency pleas over secretive Clearing House The Cabinet Office has said no to every recommendation made by PACAC and the information commissioner By Jenna Corderoy / 8 Jul 2022
Opinion / The rules failed to hold Boris Johnson to account. We need radical change Government refusal to release ministers’ official pandemic diaries was latest in a litany of transparency failures By Peter Geoghegan / 7 Jul 2022
Opinion / Michael Gove smeared us. Now we have been vindicated by an official inquiry The levelling up secretary attacked our ‘Clearing House’ reporting. Today, he is the one who looks ‘ridiculous’ By Open democracy / 29 Apr 2022
News / Boris Johnson’s government slammed by MPs over FOI 'Clearing House' secrecy Parliamentary inquiry launched in the wake of openDemocracy's revelations condemns Cabinet Office's handling of Freedom of Information requests By Jenna Corderoy / 28 Apr 2022
News / UK government spent £40,000 hiding secretive Clearing House unit Exclusive: The Cabinet Office has been accused of wasting taxpayer money on efforts to conceal a unit that helped block FOI requests By Jenna Corderoy / 26 Jan 2022
News / Clearing House: Government admits it’s done nothing about ‘Orwellian’ unit Cabinet Office pledged to review a unit that blocked Freedom of Information requests. Five months on, it hasn’t even appointed an investigator By Jenna Corderoy / 20 Jan 2022
News / Sue Gray: How ‘partygate’ investigator stonewalled transparency campaign ‘No confidence’ in civil servant after her involvement with Cabinet Office’s ‘Orwellian’ Clearing House, campaigner says By Jenna Corderoy / 11 Jan 2022
