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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 given formal warning over personal data failuresInformation Commissioner’s Office reprimanded seven organisations for causing people ‘significant distress’
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Published in: Home: NewsMet Police pays out £1.2m over discrimination claimsExclusive: Police force accused of a ‘culture of cover-up’ as officers are gagged from speaking out
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTruss and Sunak’s teams had worst transparency records in WhitehallRevealed: Tory leadership hopefuls both led teams with an 'awful' record for Freedom of Information
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Substandard landlords bank £132m to house vulnerable residentsSpecialist providers pocket huge sums in housing benefit, despite criticism from Regulator of Social Housing
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Published in: Home: NewsTold you so, says campaigner who warned about Sue Gray’s pastJason Evans said he was ‘not surprised’ by claims information had been omitted from Gray’s partygate report
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: Feature9 times public authorities refused to answer questionsopenDemocracy is leading more than 100 journalists and MPs in calling for the Freedom of Information Act to be...
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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: 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: openDemocracyUK: OpinionUK’s transparency watchdog has a terrible transparency record of its ownThe Information Commissioner’s Office, headed by Elizabeth Denham until last month, is failing to stick to its own rule book
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTory minister says transparency laws are ‘malign’Lord Callanan accused the public of having ‘forms set up on their word processors’ to submit FOI requests ‘with gay abandon’
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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: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealing Johnson’s talks with BP not ‘in public interest’, UK government saysExclusive: Details of secretive meeting between the PM and the oil giant among crucial climate documents the Cabinet...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: OpinionOn transparency, like so much else, the UK government is shifting the goalpostsThe government dismissed damning openDemocracy report on FOI as ‘complete nonsense’ – I wasn’t surprised, I’ve seen...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsCabinet Office blocked probe into government secrecyMPs told that the department is ‘utterly failing’ transparency laws at parliamentary inquiry
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTory advisers allowed to ‘approve’ government Freedom of Information repliesExclusive: Campaigners criticise ‘deeply suspicious’ practice that allows SpAds to vet transparency disclosures
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Published in: Freedom of Information: InvestigationBP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaignersExclusive: Oil giant also shared intelligence on environmentalists with British Museum and Warwick University in...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTransparency group that helped introduce UK FOI law faces closureThe Campaign for Freedom of Information has launched a crowdfunder to raise £50,0000 after ‘serious shortfall’ in funding
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsMPs condemn UK government's ‘abuse’ of taxpayer money to fight FOIsExclusive: Government accused of ‘misusing’ vast sums after openDemocracy revealed half a million pounds was spent...
