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Freedom of information

July 2024

  • Brown sewage foams on the River Thames

    Environment Agency refuses to reveal directors’ possible conflicts of interest

    Agency rejected FOI request about potential conflicts of financial and business interests held by regional directors

June 2024

  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures after landing in Canberra, Australia.

    ‘You can expect everything’: what next for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?

    Site’s edge on whistleblowing is gone and its co-founder must recover, yet their resilience may make revival a possibility

May 2024

  • A police officer out of focus in the foreground, with Buckingham Palace behind and flags along the Mall

    Security costs of UK royals cannot be made public, judges rule

  • Whitburn

    Northumbrian Water told to publish raw sewage discharge data it tried to hide

April 2024

  • Rishi Sunak stands in front of a blue backdrop with a union flag to the left

    Rishi Sunak under fire for government’s record low in freedom of information

    Government allowed information to be released fully for only 34% of requests in 2023
  • Picture taken with a drone shows people crossing the Channel crowded on to a small rib boat

    Over 18,000 who faced Rwanda removal are now having cases dealt with in UK

    FoI data reveals about three-quarters of people given notices of intent have since been put into asylum system
  • A silver Home Office sign

    Dozens of Home Office staff under criminal investigation, FoI data shows

    Freedom of information request reveals potential offences include immigration crime, drug offences and fraud

March 2024

  • The British Museum

    British Museum investigated over Ethiopian artefacts hidden from view for 150 years

  • George Monbiot

    ‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal

    George Monbiot

February 2024

  • Herdwick shepherd James Rebanks working on his farm at Matterdale End in Cumbria.

    Defra officials buried analysis showing dire financial prospects for hill farmers

    Exclusive: FoI request reveals fears many would sell up if they saw assessment of post-Brexit farming payments scheme
  • the Wethersfield military base, photographed at twilight – barracks are seen behind a high wire fence with spotlights

    Home Office warned of violence and arson risks at Essex airbase holding asylum seekers

    Exclusive: Immigration watchdog says ‘hopelessness caused by boredom’ at Wethersfield site will inevitably lead to harm
  • Male officer in high-vis vest with damaged windows and debris in the background

    ‘People are scared’: Sweden’s freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings

    Online access to home addresses is a cherished right. But as gangs target rivals with ease, innocent victims are caught in the blasts

January 2024

  • Nigel Farage

    Nigel Farage lobbied senior Tory minister over NatWest complaint

    Emily Thornberry accuses Farage and Andrew Griffith of ‘secretly conspiring’ over de-banking issue
  • Members of the royal family gather on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

    National Archives censor files showing late queen concealed relative’s wealth

    Documents recording request from monarch to keep secret the will of a relative partly withdrawn from public view

    • UK water industry’s ‘urgent’ plan to tackle sewage pollution delayed by four months

    • Al Jazeera accuses Israel of targeted killing of two of its journalists in Gaza

    • Champagne worth £90,000 bought in House of Lords last year, FoI data shows

December 2023

  • Diana, Princess of Wales, during her interview with Martin Bashir for the BBC

    BBC likely to redact some of emails it must release over Martin Bashir scandal

    Broadcaster expected to use Freedom of Information Act to stop full disclosure, tribunal told
  • Kerry Packer at a World Series Cricket press conference in London in 1977

    Kerry Packer was proposed as mediator in Thatcher’s fight to stop Spycatcher memoir

    Counsel for ex-MI5 officer Peter Wright suggested role for Australian media tycoon but idea was swiftly rejected
  • The facade of New Scotland Yard in London

    Revealed: data from UK anti-radicalisation scheme Prevent being shared with ports and airports

    Personal details from voluntary programme sent secretly without consent to government departments and border agencies, document shows
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