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Claire Miller

But some train (and other transport) companies are already covered by #FOI.

So there's some ready-made ideas for things to request from the latest addition.

clairemiller.net/2022/11/freed

Words + Numbers - Telling stories through data journalism and Freedom of Information, and helping you to improve your skills to do the same · Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 11/11/22 – #FOIFriday - Words + NumbersThere are some public bodies you can send a Freedom of Information request to but you might not realise you can. Possibly because you wouldn’t think they were public bodies. In recent years, the Government (or rather governments, this is a devolved issue) have ended up taking over contracted-out transport services. And now those services
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Claire Miller

The Government's rail re-nationalisation project is underway, with the South Western Railways the first to join the Great British Railways project on Monday.

And public ownership means becoming a public body for the purposes of #FOI.

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O=C=O

UK development body still has $700m invested overseas in fossil-fuel assets

In 2020, BII committed to “aligning” its “future” investments with the #ParisAgreement and since then it has doubled its renewable-energy funding.

But, as of 2023, the last year for which data is available, it also still had a large portfolio of #gas-fired power plants across #Africa and south #Asia.

Multiple freedom of information (#FOI) requests by Carbon Brief reveal #FossilFuel energy and related projects worth nearly $700m (£526m) on BII’s books, which represents about 6% of its assets in 2023.

The FOI results also show that, at the end of last year, BII still had $70m (£53m) of unspent funds earmarked for foreign fossil-fuel companies in the coming years.

BII has not breached its own investment guidelines and says its fossil-fuel exposure fell further in 2024 as it aims to “manage and responsibly exit” these assets.

carbonbrief.org/revealed-uk-de

Carbon Brief · Revealed: UK development body still has $700m invested overseas in fossil-fuel assets - Carbon BriefBritish International Investment, a UK government-owned and aid-funded company, has a portfolio of overseas fossil-fuel assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars
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BellingenNSW

A democratic system of government ?

"The Australian government is refusing freedom of information requests at a rate not seen for a decade, data shows, prompting concerns for transparency and accountability."

"Transparency International Australia chief executive officer, Clancy Moore, said the FoI system was an essential tool in ensuring accountability and integrity, but refusal rates suggested “important information about the functioning of government is being kept from everyday Australians”.
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#transparency #FOI #accountability #governance #BehindClosedDoors #democracy #CivicEngagement

The Guardian · Surge in refusals for freedom of information undermines trust in Australian government, watchdog warnsBy Christopher Knaus
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Tiggy

Several people have suggested writing to our PM in Welsh after he insisted everyone who wants to come to the UK speaks and writes English at a higher level than most people born here. But also that everyone must speak English, ignoring our other native languages.

Welsh is protected in law!

One person replied that the letters would probably get binned.
In which case follow up with a Freedom of Information request.

#Welsh#FoI
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Claire Miller

Bumper lot of #FOI stories this week, covering:
- updates on dog attacks and knives in schools
- hospital sewage leaks
- free parking that wasn't
- a recurring Manchester train delay problem

clairemiller.net/2025/04/freed

Words + Numbers - Telling stories through data journalism and Freedom of Information, and helping you to improve your skills to do the same · Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 4/4/2025 – #FOIFridayFreedom of Information is political. And not just in the sense that opposition parties are using it on a weekly basis in Scotland (see below). In the US, among other things going on, unsurprisingly FOI is under attack. Teams that deal with FOIA requests have been entirely cut at the Centers for Disease Control and
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Estelle Platini

Brutaliser les autres s'impose avec le monothéisme : "Je pense qu'il y a vraiment une spécificité à la Bible […] qui est, justement, cette idée que la révélation de la vérité passe par la souffrance du faible."

Puis la Renaissance permet de mieux culpabiliser la victime : Avec la modernité, "c'est la personne qui ne fait rien qui est vue comme responsable du surgissement de la promiscuité sexuelle."

Matthieu Poupart : radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p

#honte#foi#croyances
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Claire Miller

#FOI stories this week:
- e-scooter & e-bike fires
- dead pheasants
- alternative names for train lines
- film & tv payouts for councils

clairemiller.net/2025/03/freed

Words + Numbers - Telling stories through data journalism and Freedom of Information, and helping you to improve your skills to do the same · Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 28/3/2025 – #FOIFriday - Words + NumbersA lot of Freedom of Information requests are about local issues. So this week that includes the cost of parking permits, vandalism to school signs, dead game birds and alternative names for train lines. Many of these could have a new life slightly less locally (though the one about pheasants does need some local pheasants).
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