What is the Freedom of Information Act?

By January 2005, the Freedom of Information Acts for both Scotland and the UK will be fully implemented. Although mutually exclusive, both Acts create a general right to information held by a public authority.

If you are a service provider to the public sector then two main issues exist. These are:

you could be designated a public authority for the purposes of a particular contract (for example, in the PPP arena); and
information that you disclose to a public authority is potentially acces... (298 more words)

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