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March 8th, 2012
Maps – Cameron’s Dividing Line On Access to Information

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Real freedom of information is about “the money that goes in, the results that come out”, as opposed to “FOI requests that are all about processes”. That’s the view of David Cameron, which he expressed yesterday at the end of his evidence session in front of a House of Commons committee. He distinguished between the increased transparency that derives from the publication of data (such as crime maps, local government spending and public sector contracts), which he is enthusiastic about, and what he called “the endless discovery process” of responding to FOI requests, which clearly doesn’t appeal to him quite so much. Read More