Lord Callanan accused the public of having ‘forms set up on their word processors’ to submit FOI requests ‘with gay abandon’
A government minister has been criticised for calling the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) a “truly malign piece of legislation”.
Lord Callanan, a minister at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, said that charging the public fees for requesting government information was an “excellent idea”.
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