The information commissioner has backed the government’s refusal to release its assessment of how plans to close nearly 1,000 ticket offices across England would have affected disabled people and other groups protected under the Equality Act. The Information Commissioner’s Office ruled […]
Freedom of Information Act
Watchdog gives Treasury go-ahead to keep budget equality impact secret
Watchdog warns DWP over repeated failure on freedom of information laws
DWP refuses to publish information from secret reviews into benefit-related deaths
Ministers ‘breach FoI laws’ by delaying release of fresh benefit deaths reviews
Revealed: DWP’s secret, ‘financially devastating’ proposals for benefits appeals
Secret DWP proposal to scrap ESA ‘substantial risk’ rules ‘would breach right to life’
Government hides information on death of Michael O’Sullivan
The government is refusing to release information that would reveal which ministers and civil servants decided how to respond to the death of a man who killed himself as a direct result of being found “fit for work”. Disability News Service […]