Adding the RIPA Commissioners to Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act
Following on from our questions to the Interception of Communications Commissioner, about the "Wilson Doctrine",we were surprised that his office claimed that he was technically exempt from the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We therefore emailed the Department for Constitutional Affairs, so as to have the various Commissioners who were established by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, and who are appointed by the Prime Minister, added to the List of Organisations in Schdeule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, as they all meet both of the conditions set down for inclusion under the Act.
We have now had a reply from the DCA: