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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: Home: FeatureA year after Partygate, why is the government still being so secretive?A year after the news broke about Partygate, the Cabinet Office is still refusing openDemocracy’s FOI requests on...
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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: NewsMinisters take openDemocracy to court to avoid handing over secret Covid reviewThe Department of Health and Social Care has appealed to a tribunal to avoid having to hand over the documents
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Published in: Freedom of Information: News‘Farcical’ government refuses to publish Hancock’s official pandemic diariesFormer health secretary has published memoirs as a book – but department of health won’t hand over his official diary
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Published in: Home: InvestigationRevealed: Airlines want £2bn handout to cover cost of ‘green’ fuelVirgin Atlantic, BA and EasyJet blasted over ‘outrageous’ request for taxpayers to subsidise their passengers
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsGovernment loses 18-month fight to keep ‘Covid lessons learnt’ review secretDepartment of Health and Social Care officials battled openDemocracy to avoid releasing the internal document
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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: 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: 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: Home: ExplainerNational Security Bill: UK’s latest crackdown on journalists explainedPriti Patel’s new law would make it an offence for certain organisations to reveal ‘restricted’ information
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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: Freedom of Information: NewsEditors and MPs urge watchdog to act over escalating government secrecyopenDemocracy leads campaign to enforce transparency laws as government accused of abusing Freedom of Information...
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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: 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...
