Volume: 2 Issue: 2
(February 2005)
Keywords:
foi
reveals
diners
disasters
flurry
information
well
accusations
foul
play
surrounded
coming
force
freedom
information
act
january
1
Jurisdictions:
Europe
A flurry of information as well as accusations of foul play have surrounded the coming into force of The Freedom of Information Act on January 1. The headline news has surrounded revelations such as the Treasury’s secret archive tracing the UK’s withdrawal from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday, September 16 1992, at an apparent cost of £3.2billion.