The Office of Government Commerce have, after being prompted by the Office of the Information Commissioner, clarified slightly the information which they held at the time of our FOIA request back in January 2005, regarding the Gateway Reviews of the Home Office's Identity Cards Programme.
Is it worth asking for this newly revealed document: a draft version of the "Technical Risk Assessment of an Entitlement Cards Scheme" dated 17th March 2003. ?
We are expecting a Preliminary Decision Notice, from the Office of the Information Commissioner, but not before the end of October (our original appeal was back in April), as it appears that lawyers are being consulted.
We see no reason why these Gateway Reviews cannot be released to the public, with the names and identifying details of any of the individual civil servants or external consultants censored or redacted. There is , by definition, no commercially sensitive information such as tender bid prices in these reports, as the official procurement phase has not yet begun, even today.
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