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Old November 18th 15, 01:10 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default Access to Freedom of Information is under threat

In message , at 13:56:05 on
Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Scott remarked:
Proposed changes, currently under discussion by a cross-party
government commission, could make it much harder for to access
information.

You have until 20 November if you’d like to voice your opposition to
these restraints.

https://www.mysociety.org/2015/11/10...es-what-to-do/


Just in London or does it affect other parts of the UK also?


It'll be the whole country, but London gives the impression of having a
wider range of secretive public bodies - with a capability to affect
people's daily lives - than most of the rest of the country.

If these bodies have more power (the Mayoral office for example, quite
independent from any particular incumbent) then perhaps they should also
be more transparent - rather than less.
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Roland Perry