Hello, I am new to this list but I would like to tell you about a petition on the 10 Downing Street website. At present Section 6 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 makes companies that are 100% owned by the Crown or by a single public authority subject to the Act.
The current law is not sensible - a company owned by one local authority is subject to the Act but a company owned by two local authorities is not. A more sensible approach is to make all companies owned two thirds or more by any number of public authorities subject to the Act. "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to support a change to the law to make companies owned two thirds or more by public authorities subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000." sign it here: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/publiccompanies/ If you have a few minutes please sign it today. We are currently on 96 signatures so your signature could help us reach 100. Examples of companies that could become subject to Act under these rules: - Manchester Airport Group plc [MAG is wholly owned by the ten local authorities of Greater Manchester with Manchester City Council owning 55%. ] - The Russell Group of Universities [a company limited by guarantee controlled by 20 of the largest universities in the UK, the universities themselves are subject to the Freedom of Information Act] - many housing associations If any of you would like me to inform you about similar freedom of information campaigns in future please send me an email as I will not necessarily post about every campaign on this list. I would be grateful if you could forward this to anyone you know who you think might be interested. thanks for your time, John -- John Cross [email protected] freedom of information - http://confirm-or-deny.blogspot.com/ improve democracy - STVAction.org.uk _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
