Ministers announced in February 2015 that a total of 13 schools in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire had seen their applications to take part in the Priority School Building Programme 2 (PSBP2) approved.

The government fought for more than a year to block an EDP Freedom of Information request for a list of schools whose bids were rejected, but were finally ordered to release it by the Information Commissioner.

Reported by The Eastern Daily Press. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.