The only stupid question is the one you don't ask. If someone asked a fire-authority how much they spent on planning for alien landings and the response was £1,000,000 who would be complaining about the FoI act ?
Asking for MP's expenses receipts was seen as 'fishing','a waste of money', 'invasion of privacy' etc... but *after* it was complied with, we saw that it was 100% justified and useful. Saying 'we spend nothing' or 'we do nothing' etc takes seconds and costs pennies. If the public are only allowed to ask questions that are expected to get reasonable, rational, sensible answers, then the public sector will have no concerns about being irrational in what they do and on what they spend our money - we will not be allowed to ask them about it. It will exclude the information about which we most need to know... - Have you seen the publication of all council spending over £500 ? The descriptions of the transactions make this 100% useless. But by bringing in specific rules, (as I understand it) the FoI can no longer be applied to these items of expenditure - thanks for less than nothing! _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
