Recommendation 14

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