CHAPTER 7: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (THE ‘FOIA’)
The Information Commissioner enforces both the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act.
The FOIA provides a general right of access to all types of information held by public authorities and those providing services for them. The FOIA, it says, is:
‘intended to promote a culture of openness and accountability amongst public sector bodies, and therefore facilitate better public understanding of how public bodies carry out their duties, why they make the decisions they do, and how they spend public money’.
Only public authorities are covered by the Act and there is a long list, at Schedule 1 of the FOIA, of all the organizations covered. It basically includes any public body. ...
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