1000 days and still waiting
Posted on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 by Home Office WatchCategory: ID Cards
A feasibility study of ID cards. As the government’s going ahead with ID cards, it must have been positive, right? (well, assuming logic prevails in government…)
So why has it been 1000 days since a Freedom of Information request was submitted for the so-called “gateway review” of the scheme?
Spyblog and former Lib Dem Shadow Home Secretary Mark Oaten both asked for these documents - and our requests, complaints, appeals, yada yada have been handled together.
So far the legal costs have been £60,000 but with a QC on board, expect them to spiral.
And all this to cover up what - surely - must have been a glowing report encouraging the government to plunge ahead into spending the £100,000 a day they’re now pouring into the project.
Or could it be it wasn’t such a positive report?
Hopefully the Information Commissioner will prevail in the ongoing appeals and some day we’ll know…
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October 4th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Why are you still banging on about early reviews of a project that was radically changed late last year, about reviews that only looked at the process of the project and not the content? Or maybe this FOI battle is a ‘foot in the door’ job to try to set a precedent for requests for all Gateway Review reports to be made public - in which case I think those who have made the request have chosen the wrong project as the target. There must be better ways to influence govt to radically up its competence in planning and delivering major public administration projects.