03 June 2010
Government departments are refusing to respond to an ever higher proportion of Freedom of Information Act requests.
Government departments are refusing to respond to an ever higher proportion of Freedom of Information Act requests. Sweet and Maxwell researchers found that 23% of requests were refused in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared with 18% in 2005 when the Act came into force. More than 6,700 requests were withheld in the last 12 months.
