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Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News A recent Home Office response to another ID cards related FoI enquiry shows the department spent a total of £31.6m on external consultants' services for the ID cards project between the financial years 2003/04 and 2005/06. [22 Aug 2008]
NHS admits thousands of smartcards have gone walkies
News Of the 221 NHS bodies that replied to the FoI request, one in ten said they had no idea how many cards had been lost or stolen. More than 4,000 NHS smartcards used to access a range of electronic systems and applications... [06 Feb 2008]
Mobile phones leak from UK government
News A recent Freedom of Information (FoI) enquiry by silicon.com into lost devices within the UK government has revealed how many mobile phones have gone astray in a number of departments, as well as unearthing some more... [03 Aug 2006]
Whitehall fights to keep ID card cost report secret
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is appealing against an order by the UK's data protection watchdog to release a secret report on the costs, benefits and risks of introducing ID cards in the UK. [06 Jul 2006]
NHS IT director general Granger's salary revealed
News Granger's salary, bonuses and expenses have finally been released to silicon.com after a protracted wrangle with the Department of Health (DoH) over a Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request. The FoI... [30 May 2006]
How much does NHS IT chief Granger earn?
News The Department of Health (DoH) is dragging its feet over releasing details of NHS IT chief Richard Granger's salary, bonuses and expenses despite a request made by silicon.com under the Freedom of Information (FoI)... [20 Apr 2006]
Decline in FoI requests after initial excitement
News Government bodies received 7,700 Freedom of Information (FoI) requests between September and December last year, the lowest quarterly total since the law came into effect. These figures suggest that there was a marked... [07 Apr 2006]
Reveal MPs' travel expenses, says info commissioner
News MPs' travel expenses must be released by the House of Commons under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, the information commissioner has ordered. FoI requests had been made for a breakdown of travel... [24 Feb 2006]
Half of FoI complaints unresolved
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has resolved less than half of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act complaints it received last year. Since the FoI Act came into effect last January, the ICO... [13 Jan 2006]
UFOs and meatballs - the effect of FOI on public sector
News The NA has been tipped as something of a specialist with the FOI Act, and because of its long history of dealing with documents it developed a standard - TNA 2002 - that all government departments should demand from... [14 Sep 2005]
Police IT boss: Why we swapped Linux for Microsoft
News The force had been working on an open source FOI project but Stirling said: "This system was never completed to our satisfaction and the project was terminated. Central Scotland Police is replacing parts of its open... [18 Aug 2005]
Watchdog gets more than 1,000 FoI complaints
News The UK's data protection watchdog claims public bodies are adhering to the spirit of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, despite receiving more than 1,000 complaints since January about authorities failing to comply... [13 Jul 2005]
One in five FoI requests turned down
News Central government bodies refused nearly one in five Freedom of Information (FoI) Act requests received in the first three months the legislation was in force. Departments of State reported receiving a total of around... [27 Jun 2005]
Freedom of Information: How good is your council?
News Almost nine out of ten local authorities have complied with the deadline for dealing with Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from the public since the Act came into force in January, according to a new survey. [22 Feb 2005]
Government email deletion under scrutiny
News Wyatt, who is leading a parliamentary charge against spammers, said he would be disappointed if the government had resorted to clearing inboxes as a way of avoiding embarrassment from the Freedom of Information Act (FoI). [23 Dec 2004]
