The Ministry of Justice has put out a press release saying what an important job the Freedom of Information Act is doing.
We think East Devon Diatrict Council might disagree!
“FOI is not only about the high-profile, headline-making releases of information but about the right of the individual to find out about the issues that matter to them. It is a fundamental right of all citizens to be able to hold their Government to account and that is why transparency is vital.”
East Devon Watch 
Professor Hazell, who holds a personal Chair in British Politics and Government at UCL, went on the Radio 4 Today program yesterday to comment on the tenth anniversary of the FOI Act. He has a grant from the Leverhulme Trust to study its effects. One of his findings, stated on the radio, is that the FOI Act is to blame for the MPs’ expenses scandal and the destabilisation of government, which led to several MP resignations. Personally I blame the MPs who made fraudulent claims for expenses for the scandal; I don’t blame the law and the investigators who found the MPs out in their wrongdoing.
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