The information commissioner has told the Treasury it can continue to hide information that would show how measures in a controversial spring budget were predicted to affect disabled people and other groups protected by the Equality Act. Disability News Service (DNS) […]
Freedom of Information Act
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
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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 […]