Great blog by J.Baines on submissions to the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information. Our predictions here: https://actnowtraining.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/freedom-of-information-the-future/
There is some irony in the quite extraordinary news that the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information received 30,000 submissions in response to its public call for written evidence: one of the considerations in the call for evidence was the fact that “reading time” cannot currently be factored in as one of the tasks which determines whether a request exceeds the cost limit under section 12 of the FOI Act.
Lord Burns has now announced that
Given the large volume of evidence that we have received, it will take time to read and consider all of the submissions
Well, yes. The Commission originally planned to report its findings “before the end of the year” (that is, the parliamentary year, which ends on 17 December). It also planned to read all the evidence which was before the Justice Committee when it conducted its post-legislative scrutiny of FOIA in 2012, and there…
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