The new head of MI6 says his agency will monitor other countries’ climate commitments, but the UK’s intelligence agencies are refusing to provide any information on their own environmental footprint.
Traffic commissioner’s publication scheme
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires public authorities to adopt and maintain a publication scheme. Whilst each traffic commissioner is an independent office holder and data controller under the
FOI Act, they will be treated as parties in common for the purposes of this publication scheme.
The purpose of this publication scheme is to:
specify the classes of information traffic commissioners have committed to publish
say how traffic commissioners will make that information available
say whether the information is available free of charge or on payment
Most of the information covered by the publication scheme will be made available on the traffic commissioners’ pages on the GOV.UK website. If information is required in an alternative format, all reasonable steps will be taken to assist.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have published a joint statement, setting out their shared views on the relationship between competition and data protection in the digital economy.
Square Mile policing priorities set out What is city talk?
Speaking at the Court of Common Council today, City of London Police Authority Board (PAB) Chair, James Thomson, set out its policing priorities for the City of London Police (CoLP).
He said: “Our vision for the City is to make it the safest business district in the world, and for the City of London Police to continue to be the leading specialist force for protective security – and at a national level, for tackling economic crime and cyber security.
“A secure Square Mile is one of the reasons businesses choose to locate to London and the City.
Comments Off on Network Rail: how accounting definitions of control can expand FOI/EIR coverage
Exploring the history of expansions of FOI to private operators for our report on Reforming FOI led to trying to understand the history of how Network Rail became subject to FOI and EIR. This blog post explores how in very niche circumstances, the highest information court is the Office for National Statistics.
Network Rail is a body that owns and manages the infrastructure of most of the railway network in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). As such, it holds information of potential public interest, but its status under Freedom of Information (FOI) and the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) has been contested. A 2006 ICO decision concluded that Network Rail was not a public authority for the purposes of FOI (FER0071801 /FER0087031), but was for the purposes of EIR. This decision was overturned by the Information Tribunal (EA/2006/0061 EA2006/0062) in