Lloyd, Tony raised an interesting point.
Subject(s): Scrutiny; FoI; Governance; Metadata; LocalGov; Parliament-UK
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what steps he plans to take to increase levels of transparency in Government decision-making in order to improve accountability to the public.
Comment by #wco: We like this, however as part of the Big Society, more and more services will be delivered by organisations that are not subject to FOI requests - we suggest the following changes to FOI legislation:
where a civic service or function is provided,
or where a partnership exists where one parter is already subject to FOI then that subsequent provider and partnership is also a "derived" subject to FOI requests
in addition, the preamble to the legislation is to inclusive, rather that prescriptive for organisations to be subject to it. ie, any organisation spending central/local government money is subject to FOI unless specifically time-limited excluded - with scrutiny for the decision.
Other contacts: Maude, Francis
More details can be read at:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2011-03-01a.42563.h
https://sites.google.com/site/thirdchamber/platform#TOC-Justice-Democracy
Published: 01/03/2011 12:00:00
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