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TORY ministers were shamed yesterday into shelving their plans to make the public pay to scrutinise the government.
The government launched a review of the Freedom of Information Act last July, claiming the current law did not recognise the “need for a ‘safe space’ for policy development.”
Charging fees to submit requests were among proposals considered, but Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock has now conceded that would be “inappropriate.”
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped
