FOI - openDemocracy

Plus, how Peter Mandelson might find common ground with Trump in rumoured new role as UK ambassador to Washington

By Ethan Shone

/ 10 Dec 2024

A new lobby shop has close links to Starmer and his top team, while another firm is wooing junior journalists

By Ethan Shone

/ 8 Nov 2024

Exclusive: New openDemocracy report reveals public bodies regularly fail to respond to FOI requests before legal deadline

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 27 Jun 2024

Department of Health and Social Care may be held in contempt of court for missing information commissioner’s deadline

By Jenna Corderoy and Ruby Lott-Lavigna

/ 31 May 2023

Exclusive: Government refuses to answer questions about its surveillance of immigration lawyers

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 24 Apr 2023

Exclusive: openDemocracy investigation on Westminster secrecy was monitored by shadowy Cabinet Office unit

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 1 Feb 2023

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

Information Commissioner’s Office reprimanded seven organisations for causing people ‘significant distress’

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 28 Sep 2022

Exclusive: Police force accused of a ‘culture of cover-up’ as officers are gagged from speaking out

By Martin Williams and finlay johnston

/ 23 Aug 2022

Revealed: Tory leadership hopefuls both led teams with an 'awful' record for Freedom of Information

By Lucas Amin and Martin Williams

/ 17 Aug 2022

Specialist providers pocket huge sums in housing benefit, despite criticism from Regulator of Social Housing

By Jenna Corderoy and Martin Williams

/ 29 Jun 2022

Jason Evans said he was ‘not surprised’ by claims information had been omitted from Gray’s partygate report

By Indra Warnes

/ 1 Jun 2022