Labour Blames ‘Spiralling Administrative Costs’ to Justify FoI Clampdown
Labour is considering lowering the cost ceiling for processing Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, using ‘spiralling administrative costs’ as the latest excuse to limit government transparency. Obviously blaming China wasn’t good enough… According to briefings in the FT: “The soaring number of requests comes against a backdrop of heavily constrained Whitehall budgets… the cost threshold…



