Transparency - openDemocracy (Page 4)

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

openDemocracy leads campaign to enforce transparency laws as government accused of abusing Freedom of Information Act and blacklisting reporters

By Martin Williams

/ 7 Apr 2022

The prime minister personally contacted a Tory donor on WhatsApp to ask for help funding his redecoration, Electoral Commission finds

By Seth Thévoz and Martin Williams

/ 9 Dec 2021

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

Exclusive: Members of the House of Lords will have to provide details of companies they have ‘significant control’ over, following record rule breach

By Adam Bychawski

/ 1 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 Owen Paterson scandal doesn’t surprise me; MPs shouldn’t be trusted. That’s why Westminster is plagued with scandals

By Martin Williams

/ 4 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