July 2005 Archives

Home Office FOIA disclosure about the new procedures for demonstrations in the vicinity of Parliament Square

By wtwu on July 22, 2005 6:42 PM | 1 Comment | 1 TrackBack

We have had a reply from the Home Office to our Freedom of Information Act request about the new procedures for restricting demonstrations in the vicinity of Parliamnent Square, under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

Since we asked 16 specific questions, we have repeated these alongside the answers in the email letter below.

Bear in mind that this FOIA request was submitted before the signing of the Statutory Instrument on the 8th June outlining the Designated Area, and before the Map was published last week:

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Further delays with the Home Office Internal Review of their decision not to release information on the Identity Cards Programme meeting diaries, agendas etc

By wtwu on July 11, 2005 8:58 AM | 1 Comment

More delays for the Home Office Internal Review of its decision to withhold information relating to the ffficial meeting diaries, agendas of meetings, travel and entertainment expenses of the senior members of the Hom Office Identity Cards Programme team.

They a "full response" is now promised by 29th July 2005.

Could this delay have anything to do with the fact that the Committee Stage of the Identity Cards Bill, which might have been informed by this Freedom of Information Act request, will be completed by 19th July ?

Every previous chance to reveal information about the Identity Cards Scheme has also managed, somehow, to avoid being published until after the debates in the Parliament.

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This United Kingdom based blog has been spawned from Spy Blog, and is meant to provide a place to track our Freedom of Information Act 2000 requests to United Kingdom Government and other Public Authorities.

If you have suggestions for other FOIA requests,  bearing in mind the large list of exemptions, then email them to us, or use the comments facility on this blog, and we will see  what we can do, without you yourself having to come under the direct scrutiny of  "Sir Humphrey Appleby" or his minions.

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NO2ID - opposition to the Home Office's Compulsory Biometric ID Card
NO2ID - opposition to the Home Office's Compulsory Biometric ID Card and National Identity Register centralised database.

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Peaceful resistance to the curtailment of our rights to Free Assembly and Free Speech in the SOCPA Designated Area around Parliament Square and beyond

Parliament Protest blog - resistance to the Designated Area restricting peaceful demonstrations or lobbying in the vicinity of Parliament.

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Yes, Minister Series 1, Episode 1, "Open Government" First airtime BBC: 25 February 1980

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UK Government Information Asset Register - in theory, this should point you to the correct Government documents, but in practice...well see for yourself.

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