Freedom of Information Costs Increase
DCA Press Release
16 October 2006
The Government today set out its commitment to build on the
success of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act's first year and
indicated how it might address the costs of dealing with FoI
requests. Responding to the Constitutional Affairs Select
Committee's report Freedom of Information-one year on, Lord
Falconer, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord
Chancellor, said: "I welcome and share the overall assessment of
the Committee that the implementation of the FoI Act has been a
'significant success'. The Act has been historic in that for the
first time the public has obtained a statutory right to
information held by over 100,000 public authorities across the
whole of the public sector."