Ministers have blown an estimated £30,000 trying to keep top Tory Andrew Lansley’s diaries secret from the public, campaigners revealed today.

Maurice Frankel, head of the Campaign for Freedom of Information (FoI), told MPs how the Government has blown vast sums on lawyers’ fees trying to stop the former Health Minister’s diary being made public.

Ministers are now considering ways to scupper Labour’s decade-old FoI law to prevent more embarrassing secrets coming out.

Reported by the Daily Mirror. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
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.