FOI fail
Sep 12, 2011
Bishop Hill in FOI

Much amusement at this response to a (non-climate-related) FOI request: the government department involved inadvertently copied their internal discussion about how to respond to the requester:

There is another, wide-ranging FOI request for all unpublished reports. I have provided Peter Parr with a list of relevant documents from across the Directorate, with the exception of the Bill Team where Georgina has said that it would take in excess of the time limit to conduct a search. Peter is putting up a draft response to Ministers on that basis.

I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with the idea of responses to FOI requests being run past ministers. Should ministers be involved in legal compliance matters?

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