Closing the taps
Dec 19, 2011
Bishop Hill in FOI

The Ministry of Justice has produced a report for the Justice Select Committee on the impact of FOI legislation in the UK.

There is a great deal of discussion of the cost to the civil service of compliance. There is a lot of talk of introducing charges for FOI requests.

A lot of talk.

I think it would be wise if readers here wrote the the Justice Select Committee - chairman Sir Alan Beith - and told him that it would not be a good idea to introduce charges for FOI requests.

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