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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsMatt Hancock loses battle to keep his real Covid diaries secretInformation Commissioner’s Office sides with us after two-year battle to find out what Hancock really did in 2020
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsThe Home Office says you don’t need to know about its ‘spying’ on lawyersExclusive: Government refuses to answer questions about its surveillance of immigration lawyers
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Published in: Home: OpinionMinisters blocked my questions on why they let a warlord sue a journalistLIAM BYRNE: The government must be transparent about its decision to waive sanctions against Yevgeny Prigozhin
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Published in: Home: OpinionHancock WhatsApp leak is karma for government’s failures on transparencyOPINION: Former health secretary refused to hand over official diaries, then wrote his own version of history instead
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: MPs claim £1m on expenses for private spin doctorsPR firms are raking in taxpayer cash, as Westminster regulator admits it doesn’t check if rules are followed
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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...
