Minutes from a recent meeting of the Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO) Executive Team suggest ‘possible reductions in grant in aid’, which would affect freedom of information.
UK FOI blog: Possible funding cut for FOI
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Liverpool Daily Post scores scoop with reader’s FOI request
Today’s story from the Liverpool Daily Post on council staff taking sick leave was the result of a Freedom of Information request made through democracy website www.whatdotheyknow.com.
And how do we know?
Because the source and links to the information released through the FOI request are included at the bottom of the article. A nice touch.
(Thanks to Andy Dickinson for telling us about this)
FOI generates 1,000 reports in second year, says new report
In the second year of Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation, more than 1,000 stories based on disclosures made under the FOI act were reported in the regional and national newspapers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2006-7.
The figures, released in a report from the Campaign for Freedom of Information, are broken down into subject categories ranging from drugs and the economy, to ghosts and psychic powers.
Among the most popular topics (in no particular order) are:
- Policing with 128 stories from FOI requests – which doesn’t include a separate category on ‘policing costs’
- Health (110)
- Education (65)
- Transport (36)
- Prisons (35)
There’s even one FOI story on FOI from the Belfast Telegraph about the University of Ulster proposing to introduce fees for releasing information under FOI.