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Retaining, storing and managing the WhatsApp messages of ministers and civil servants to ensure the public record is accurate is hardly rocket…

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies to all 'public authorities' as defined in the Act, including the University of Cambridge. (Each Cambridge College is a separate public authority under the FOIA.) It gives a general right of access to all types of recorded information held by public authorities and sets out exemptions from that right.