Brown should back open government
The FT leader-writer has learned that The Office of Government Commerce is to appeal to the High Court over the Information Tribunal’s ruling that the ID Cards gateway review should be published, and disapproves:
[The] tribunal found that while a “safe space” may be needed for a time to conduct such reviews, the passage of time leads to the public interest in disclosure outweighing that. On a project as critical and controversial as ID cards, that is clearly the case. It is to be hoped that the High Court, too, sees it.
