FOI - openDemocracy (Page 2)

openDemocracy is leading more than 100 journalists and MPs in calling for the Freedom of Information Act to be protected. Here’s why

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 7 Apr 2022

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

Revealed: Emails show how Sue Gray was consulted over decision to withhold information about fatal fire

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 14 Jan 2022

‘No confidence’ in civil servant after her involvement with Cabinet Office’s ‘Orwellian’ Clearing House, campaigner says

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 11 Jan 2022

The Information Commissioner’s Office, headed by Elizabeth Denham until last month, is failing to stick to its own rule book

By Jon Baines

/ 3 Dec 2021

Lord Callanan accused the public of having ‘forms set up on their word processors’ to submit FOI requests ‘with gay abandon’

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 2 Dec 2021

The government department refused to allow a probe into its ‘Orwellian’ Clearing House unit in the wake of openDemocracy legal victory

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 26 Nov 2021

Exclusive: Details of secretive meeting between the PM and the oil giant among crucial climate documents the Cabinet Office refuses to release

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 11 Nov 2021

The government dismissed damning openDemocracy report on FOI as ‘complete nonsense’ – I wasn’t surprised, I’ve seen its efforts to act in secrecy

By Tommy Sheppard

/ 3 Nov 2021

MPs told that the department is ‘utterly failing’ transparency laws at parliamentary inquiry

By Adam Bychawski

/ 27 Oct 2021

Exclusive: Campaigners criticise ‘deeply suspicious’ practice that allows SpAds to vet transparency disclosures

By Jenna Corderoy

/ 26 Oct 2021

Exclusive: Oil giant also shared intelligence on environmentalists with British Museum and Warwick University in ‘shocking’ web of surveillance

By Lucas Amin, Martin Williams and Gabriel Pogrund

/ 23 Oct 2021