Defend Freedom of Information

Freedom of Information in the UK has won a reprieve after a campaign supported by the NUJ.

The Ministry of Justice announced on 25 October that it is scrapping plans to cripple the 2000 Act with charges and restrictions. Instead, the Ministry on the same day launched a consultation on whether to extend the Act to cover, for example, Public Finance Initiative (PFI) contractors and other tools of privatisation.

Please visit www.justice.gov.uk/publications/cp2707.htm to add your voice to that - the deadline is 1 February 2008.
* The new consultation deadline 01/02/08
* Freedom of Information to stay - or grow 28/10/07
* The campaign against crippling the Act
* On yer bike, Maclean! FOIA update
* Keeping information free Commons meeting full report
* The process as far as we understand it - Apr 2007
* Time to Free Information re: first consultation, Mar 2007
* Pray for Freedom of Information! intro Feb 2007
* Use FOIA now! LFB meeting, Sep 2007
* NUJ Submission before the 2000 Act Sep 1999

Other campaigns and sites
* Campaign for Freedom of Information
* Your Right to Know blog by Heather Brooke
* NUJ submission to the first consultation
* Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom

Government & parliament
* Department for Constitutional Affairs
* Proposed changes and consultations from the DCA
* Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill (Maclean Bill)
 
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