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Glasnost grips Whitehall, at last

31 December 2023

12:00 AM

31 December 2023

12:00 AM

The Cabinet Office is sometimes described as the ‘thinking brain of government’. So it’s a pity then that so little thought is applied to making it an open one. With a Freedom of Information (FOI) team that is infamous for their excuses, the ministry is frequently ranked as one of Whitehall’s worst-performing departments for transparency.

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