Transparency: the gulf between words and actions
The Trusts have just dumped a pile of information and heralded a new dawn of transparency. But is it a false dawn?
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WATS the problem?
The joint venture structure employed by The Trusts and their use of it to avoid legislated disclosures is scandalous. They are blatantly circumventing the intent of the legislation. It might not be criminal… but it should be.
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Nothing to see here
The Trusts are giving us a master-class on how to avoid official information requests. Here are their tactics
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Our information requests
For those that are interested in the details, here is the full set of correspondence from our information requests sent to The Trusts: Information request 1 Request sent 9 May 2018 Response received 8 June 2018, further response received 22 June...
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Democracy Inaction
We consider that licensing trusts are probably the least scrutinised part of the public sector No central government agency or select committee has overall oversight or monitoring responsibility for licensing trusts. This is largely...
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