While using the Information Commissioner’s Office website this evening I noticed that the ICO’s logo had been changed. The ICO have published a document on their website revealing they have spent £38,399.83 on the new “corporate image”. I am astonished at this shocking waste of public money, which has been spent while we are getting [...]
Tag Archives: FOI
Public Money Wasted on New Logo for Information Commissioner - Click for Full Article
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Asking Cambridge City Council To Routinely Release Results of Food Premises Inspections - Click for Full Article
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
I attended Cambridge City Council’s Community Services Scrutiny Committee on the 14th of January 2010. I used the fact the city council allows members of the public to speak at council meetings to ask the Executive Councillor for Community Development and Health, councillor Clare Blair, about how the council makes the results of its inspections [...]
Secrecy Surrounding Contract to Sort Cambridge’s Recycling in Peterborough - Click for Full Article
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
New blue bins for mixed recycling are to be distributed in Cambridge next month. Details of the city’s contract for dealing with the recycling have not been made public.
On the morning of the 6th of October 2009 I attended Cambridge City Council’s Environment Scrutiny Committee. I used the opportunity for members of the public [...]
Kevin Wilkins Replaces Ruth Joyce as FOI Lead on Cambs Police Authority - Click for Full Article
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Kevin Wilkins, Liberal Democrat County Councillor for West Chesterton in Cambridge, is the Police Authority’s new lead member on Freedom of Information.
Unelected appointee Ruth Joyce was removed from her position as the police authority’s lead member for freedom of information during an authority meeting on the 30th of September 2009 . I have been [...]
More Openness in Respect of UK Injuries in Afghanistan - Click for Full Article
Thursday, September 10, 2009
The response to a freedom of information request I made to the MoD reveals forty seven UK casualties injured in Afghanistan have suffered a traumatic or surgical amputation.
I believe it is very important that the British public, and particularly MPs, are aware of the serious injuries which have been suffered by UK personnel in Afghanistan. [...]
Cambridge City Council Decide to Make a Huge Leap Forward In Terms of Openness and Transparency - Click for Full Article
Friday, July 17, 2009
A buffet was provided for councillors and officers during a break in the meeting. I was hungry so I took up an offer of a sandwich. There were no professional press present. I guess I got the sandwich which would have otherwise been offered to them. (Photos of the meeting itsself were not permitted)
I attended [...]
8.5 Percent of Freedom of Information Requests to Central Government Made Via WhatDoTheyKnow.com - Click for Full Article
Monday, July 13, 2009
With the help of other members of the team who look after mySociety’s Freedom of Information (FOI) site WhatDoTheyKnow.com I have used statistics released by the Ministry of Justice to look at the proportion of FOI requests being made via the site.
In the first quarter of 2009 8.5% of all requests made to [...]
Association of Police Authorities’ Advert for New Chief Exec. Highlights Influence of Organisation Not Subject to FOI - Click for Full Article
Monday, July 6, 2009
The front page of the appointments section of the Sunday Times on the 5th of July 2009 carried an advert for a new Chief Executive of the Association of Police Authorities (APA). The APA is one of many organisations which are publically funded and have a substantial influence on the way the British state [...]
Oakington Immigration Reception Centre Debate in Parliament - Click for Full Article
Monday, June 1, 2009
Mr Howarth (MP for Cambridge),
I would like to draw your attention to the adjournment debate on Oakington Immigration Reception Centre to be held in the House of Commons on the 8th of June. I am writing to encourage you to take part in this debate given the fact the city you represent is the nearest [...]
Concern About the Independent Monitoring Board at Oakington Immigration Removal Centre - Click for Full Article
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Just outside Cambridge over three hundred men are detained at the ex. RAF base at Oakington which is now an immigration removal centre. Those held include people waiting to be deported as well as those waiting for legal due-process to make decisions on their immigration status. Many have been released from prison to the centre. [...]