Access Denied
Our report on how the British government is attacking Freedom of Information
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsGovernment given formal warning over personal data failures
Information Commissioner’s Office reprimanded seven organisations for causing people ‘significant distress’
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsUK government department reprimanded over handling of freedom of information
Information commissioner warns other public authorities to 'take note' after issuing first enforcement notice in seven years
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsGovernment’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
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTruss and Sunak’s teams had worst transparency records in Whitehall
Revealed: Tory leadership hopefuls both led teams with an 'awful' record for Freedom of Information
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsGovernment rejects MPs’ transparency pleas over secretive Clearing House
The Cabinet Office has said no to every recommendation made by PACAC and the information commissioner
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Published in: Home: NewsTold you so, says campaigner who warned about Sue Gray’s past
Jason Evans said he was ‘not surprised’ by claims information had been omitted from Gray’s partygate report
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Published in: Freedom of Information: OpinionMichael 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’
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsBoris 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...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsEditors and MPs urge watchdog to act over escalating government secrecy
openDemocracy leads campaign to enforce transparency laws as government accused of abusing Freedom of Information...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsNow Met Police won’t say why it refused to probe House of Lords ‘corruption’
Exclusive: The force said coming clean on its failure to investigate ‘cash for peerages’ scandal could cause it...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsClearing 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...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTory minister says transparency laws are ‘malign’
Lord Callanan accused the public of having ‘forms set up on their word processors’ to submit FOI requests ‘with gay abandon’
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsCabinet Office’s actions ‘increase suspicion’ about secretive FOI unit, MPs told
The government department refused to allow a probe into its ‘Orwellian’ Clearing House unit in the wake of...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: OpinionOn transparency, like so much else, the UK government is shifting the goalposts
The government dismissed damning openDemocracy report on FOI as ‘complete nonsense’ – I wasn’t surprised, I’ve seen...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsCabinet Office blocked probe into government secrecy
MPs told that the department is ‘utterly failing’ transparency laws at parliamentary inquiry
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Published in: Freedom of Information: OpinionThe FOI system is utterly broken. Here’s how to fix it
Requests for government information are delayed to the extent of rendering them pointless. This only serves...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTory advisers allowed to ‘approve’ government Freedom of Information replies
Exclusive: Campaigners criticise ‘deeply suspicious’ practice that allows SpAds to vet transparency disclosures
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Published in: Freedom of Information: News2020 was worst year on record for UK government secrecy
Exclusive: Landmark openDemocracy report exposes depth of the government’s attack on the Freedom of Information Act
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Published in: Freedom of Information: InvestigationBP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaigners
Exclusive: Oil giant also shared intelligence on environmentalists with British Museum and Warwick University in...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTransparency group that helped introduce UK FOI law faces closure
The Campaign for Freedom of Information has launched a crowdfunder to raise £50,0000 after ‘serious shortfall’ in funding
