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Recommendation
Ninth Report - The Cabinet Office Freed…
Rejected
The Cabinet Office should also issue clearer cross-government guidance on the need to maintain public record to take into account the rise of private messaging systems. Finally, the Government needs to revisit its decision to exempt the Advanced Research and Invention Agency from the Freedom of Information Act, to ensure …
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The Cabinet Office should also issue clearer cross-government guidance on the need to maintain public record to take into account the rise of private messaging systems. Finally, the Government needs to revisit its decision to exempt the Advanced Research and Invention Agency from the Freedom of Information Act, to ensure that this is not a precedent. It should set out clearly that this is an exception and why it is so.
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Government response AI summary
The government committed to transparency and revising guidance on maintaining public records, but rejected revisiting the decision to exempt the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) from the Freedom of Information Act, as it was extensively debated and agreed to by both Houses of Parliament.
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Recommendation
Ninth Report - The Cabinet Office Freed…
Rejected
To ensure clearer lines of accountability and to aid the Freedom of Information responsibilities of the Information Commissioner’s Office, the Government should consider how to better align departmental policy responsibility and financial responsibility for the Information Commissioner’s Office’s Freedom of Information work. The Government can achieve this by either moving …
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To ensure clearer lines of accountability and to aid the Freedom of Information responsibilities of the Information Commissioner’s Office, the Government should consider how to better align departmental policy responsibility and financial responsibility for the Information Commissioner’s Office’s Freedom of Information work. The Government can achieve this by either moving budgetary responsibility for such matters to the Cabinet Office or by transferring policy responsibility for Freedom of Information from the Cabinet Office to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. (Paragraph 68) The Cabinet Office Freedom of Information Clearing House 27
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Government response AI summary
The government believes the current governance structure helps to avoid any perception that there is a potential conflict of interest with FOI policy and declines to change departmental policy or financial responsibility.
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