A report in the Financial Times reveals anti-corruption campaigners, Spotlight on Corruption, are set to ask a tribunal judge next week that their freedom of information (FoI) request to the British Business Bank (BBB) is in the public interest. The two-year-old request is seeking the disclosure of the names of small businesses that accessed funds from the government's bounce-back loan scheme (BBLS). The FoI request asking the BBB to name all the companies that received BBLS loans was rejected, citing a personal data protection exemption due to many of the loans going to sole traders. Then, in February, The Guardian reported that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) had upheld the decision.
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