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Published in: Home: OpinionThe rules failed to hold Boris Johnson to account. We need radical change
Government refusal to release ministers’ official pandemic diaries was latest in a litany of transparency failures
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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: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK government spent £40,000 hiding secretive Clearing House unit
Exclusive: The Cabinet Office has been accused of wasting taxpayer money on efforts to conceal a unit that helped...
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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: openDemocracyUK: NewsSue Gray: How ‘partygate’ investigator stonewalled transparency campaign
‘No confidence’ in civil servant after her involvement with Cabinet Office’s ‘Orwellian’ Clearing House, campaigner says
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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: 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: NewsUK government’s ‘Orwellian’ FOI unit interfered in Grenfell fire FOI requests
Exclusive: Cabinet Office’s Clearing House told housing ministry to alter responses to Freedom of Information...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsCabinet Office announces review into controversial FOI unit
The FOI ‘Clearing House’ was criticised by a judge after openDemocracy won a landmark case against the government
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsMPs launch inquiry into UK government’s ‘opaque’ handling of FOI requests
A parliamentary committee will investigate the Cabinet Office after openDemocracy won transparency court case over...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsCampaigners, MPs demand investigation into UK government's secretive FOI unit
The National Union of Journalists, Campaign for Freedom of Information and others call for inquiry in wake of...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsLabour demands investigation into Michael Gove over ‘Orwellian’ FOI unit
Angela Rayner has written to Boris Johnson calling for an inquiry in wake of openDemocracy’s legal victory over...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsJudge slams Michael Gove’s office as openDemocracy wins transparency court case
Exclusive: UK government accused of ‘profound lack of transparency’ as openDemocracy wins legal victory over...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsWhy we’re taking the UK government to court to protect Freedom of Information
openDemocracy is taking legal action over the Cabinet Office’s ‘Orwellian’ Clearing House that vets FOI requests and...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsBritish government slammed by regulator over ‘unacceptable’ FOI failures
Stinging criticism of Gove’s Cabinet Office laid bare in new openDemocracy analysis. Tory MP calls for...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsFleet Street editors unite to demand ‘urgent’ action on Freedom of Information
Gove under pressure as Guardian, Times, Telegraph, FT, Mirror and others sign openDemocracy letter calling for...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: InvestigationRevealed: Government’s ‘Orwellian’ unit blocked infected blood scandal disclosure
Campaigner whose father died of HIV calls secrecy ‘outrageous’; staff in Michael Gove’s Cabinet Office cited Chilcot...
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Published in: Freedom of InformationHow the UK government is undermining the Freedom of Information Act
From delaying tactics and stonewalling to schoolboy errors, the government is making its disdain for transparency laws clear.
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Published in: Freedom of Information: OpinionIs the government’s secretive ‘Clearing House’ lawful? An expert explains
When government departments share the names of people making freedom of information requests, they may be breaking...