The outgoing information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has warned MPs that the government is sending the wrong message on freedom of information and calls for transparency laws to be updated. In a departure from her usual diplomacy, Ms Dnham also told members of parliament’s Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee how she was taken aback by the Cabinet Office’s lack of openness about its so-called clearing-house for FOI requests. The ICO had offered to conduct a voluntary audit of the clearing-house, but the government declined. “It could be entirely legitimate – we just don’t know,” she said. “There needs to be transparency about the transparency process.”
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