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Published in: Home: NewsGovernment ‘misinformation’ unit flagged investigative journalism and criticsExclusive: openDemocracy investigation on Westminster secrecy was monitored by shadowy Cabinet Office unit
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Published in: Freedom of Information: FeatureWhat we discovered via Freedom of Information this year
From secret government units to the failings of the Met Police, here’s what openDemocracy revealed via FOI in 2022
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsGovernment’s ‘Orwellian’ unit to be disbanded after openDemocracy revelations‘Clearing House’ axed two years after we revealed controversial unit was vetting Freedom of Information requests
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsGovernment rejects MPs’ transparency pleas over secretive Clearing HouseThe Cabinet Office has said no to every recommendation made by PACAC and the information commissioner
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe rules failed to hold Boris Johnson to account. We need radical changeGovernment 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 inquiryThe levelling up secretary attacked our ‘Clearing House’ reporting. Today, he is the one who looks ‘ridiculous’
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsBoris Johnson’s government slammed by MPs over FOI 'Clearing House' secrecyParliamentary 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 unitExclusive: 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’ unitCabinet 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 toldThe 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 requestsExclusive: 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 requestsA 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 unitThe 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 caseExclusive: 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 InformationopenDemocracy 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...
