* [2011-07-21 12:49:00 +0100] Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> écrit:
> I am in favour of openness of information of this sort. > > Is this the first of its kind? Because if so I suggest a few amendments. > > If it is responsive (as in this case) then every request will come to the > list and I think a large number of attached documents will simply clutter > mailboxes. (I have asked several FOIs and I have much appreciated > WhatDoTheyKnow as a way of managing a single instance of the correspondence. Hi Peter, I agree that as a general rule cluttering up the mailing list with attachments is not a good policy. There has been some discussion of OKF actually using OpenSpending to publish this sort of information as a matter of course. In this instance, I wanted to ask the question in a public forum to have some data that could be used to judge the accuracy of the UK government 25k spending reports. Using the list was just for expediency and this is a one-off request. Thank you very much, Jason for the very prompt response! A very brief look at the COI account does not look good in terms of the accuracy of government department reporting - and I would have thought that the COI would be one of the better ones. Indeed I can't see any obvious way of matching even the two transactions that thye have reported with the numbers from OKF (which I would tend to trust). Curioser and curioser... Cheers, -w -- William Waites <mailto:[email protected]> http://river.styx.org/ww/ <sip:[email protected]> F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45 _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
