History of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
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Before 2005
- The Campaign for Freedom of Information has a great timeline of how the FOI Act came about, and was instrumental in campaigning for its introduction [1]
2005
- The FOI Act came into power on 1st Jan 2005.
2009
- MP's were due to vote to prevent publication of their expenses on Friday 18th January 2009 - thanks to opposition from the public this enormous backwards step in transparency of public affairs was stopped - see MPs voting against publication of their expenses.
- Further extension of the Act to include other public authorities is due to be announced in Summer 2009.