How many of us apart from me actually asked it under FOI?
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On 9 May 2012, at 12:14, Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This article from Pulse has a response from Andrea Franks, Consultant, with
> a lot of useful contacts if you want to raise the matter with the ICO
>
> The Information Commissioner Christopher Graham will be submitting a report
> to Parliament next week in the light of the Cabinet veto of publication of
> the NHS Risk Register.
>
> Or the Justice Committee
>
> The House of Commons Justice Committee is conducting an inquiry into the
> operation of the Freedom of Information Act and will be taking evidence from
> the Department of Health officials on Tuesday 15 May.
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/cvlyxw5
>
> The really worrying thing is that the reasoning behind the Ministerial
> decision to veto publication of this risk register -
>
> "Mr Lansley claimed the move was necessary in order to protect the 'safe
> space where officials are able to give Ministers full and frank advice in
> developing policies and programmes'."
>
> Surely applies to all risk registers and other advice given by the civil
> service to ministers on any topic whatsoever.
> If this *is* their attitude, what price transparency and the rule of
> inconvenient law - such as FOI?
>
> Mary Hawking
> "thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
> can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4.
> don't forget patients like Fred!
> http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/whats-holding-fred-back/
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