November 2008 Archives

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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WhatDoTheyKnow.com - FOIA request submission and publication website from MySociety.org

Campaign for the Freedom of Information

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

UK Public CCTV Surveillance Regulation Campaign

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

Amnesty International 's irrepressible.info campaign

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

"Bernard Woolley: "Well, yes, Sir...I mean, it [open government] is the Minister's policy after all."
Sir Arnold: "My dear boy, it is a contradiction in terms: you can be open or you can have government."

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• Cabinet Office (2)
• DWP-IR Longitudinal Study Ethics Committee etc. (6)
• Department for Education and Skills (4)
• Department for Trade and Industry (1)
• Department for Work and Pensions (7)
• DfES and OECD PISA study (3)
• DfES database requests on "all children" (1)
• Environmental Information Regulations (2)
• FOIA request tools (2)
• FOIA requests in progress (26)
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office (1)
  • FCO diplomatic expulsions Polonium 210 murder affair (6)
• Freedom of Information (13)
• HO Comms Data Retention regulations ISP list (4)
• HO EIR request Tracer Gas Trials (4)
• HO Identity Cards Programme meeting diaries, agendas, minutes, expenses etc. (12)
• HO Press Office (1)
• HO Prohibited Places - Official Secrets Act 1911 (2)
• HO Protests near Parliament Square (5)
• HO Terrorism Act 2000 s44 Authorisations (18)
• HO anti-fraud disclosure CoP (2)
• Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
  • HMRC tax record special categories (8)
• Her Majesty's Treasury (15)
• Home Office (29)
• House of Commons (3)
• House of Lords (3)
• Identity Cards Programme (18)
• Information Commissioner (22)
  • 7 Whitehall moles on secondment to ICO (2)
  • FOIA Names for Correspondence
• Information Tribunal (11)
• Inland Revenue (2)
• Interception of Communications Commissioner (2)
• Legal definition of "electronic signature" (3)
• Location Based Services Code of Practice (2)
• Metropolitan Police (8)
• Ministry of Justice (1)
  • MoJ - Prohibited Place - Official Secrets Act 1911 (6)
• National Health Service (1)
• OGC Gateway Reviews of the Identity Cards Programme (30)
• ONS request re Citizen Information Project (1)
• Ofcom - Office of Communications (2)
• Office for National Statistics (2)
• Office of Government Commerce (9)
• Parliament (1)
• Public Relations Spin (1)
• SOCPA Section 128 Designated / Protected Sites (3)
• Suggestions for FOIA request (4)
• Wilson Doctrine (3)