Wednesday, 6 May 2009

FOI in tatters

Late yesterday I posted a blog piece on IndyMinds, asking, Is this the worst FOI response ever?

The Department for Transport has refused to let me have a copy of a letter sent by the BAA chief executive to transport secretary Geoff Hoon, on the grounds that its contents are already in the public domain, in the form of a BAA press release. The DfT is not so much witholding the information as:
"providing information in a format different than the format requested"
under the Environmental Information Regulations.

2 comments:

Tim said...

Presumably you have started the appeal process by requesting the internal review - before shopping them to ICO ?

Tim said...

Presumably you have started the appeal process by requesting the internal review ?

Before you shop them to the ICO ?

Are you attending Colin's lecture (as advertised at planestupid )