You couldn’t make it up: the government department now in charge of looking at ways to weaken the Freedom of Information Act
“… has twice been subject to special monitoring by the ICO due to its inadequate performance on processing FOI applications. It’s possible that the Cabinet Office may now face this for a third time.
“In the last two months or so we’ve issued six decision notices against the Cabinet Office for exceeding the statutory time limit – it’s not a good record,” says Graham Smith, the deputy information commissioner.
East Devon Watch 