Freedom of information for 'public not press'
Last Updated: 1:51am GMT 21/03/2007
From the Daily Telegraph.
Freedom of information is mainly for the public and not the press, the Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer will say today.
"People not the press must be the priority. There is a right to know, not a right to tell," he is set to say. In delivering the Lord Williams of Mostyn memorial lecture, Lord Falconer also insists the Government is fully committed to openness.
He will argue that the Government believes Whitehall was insufficiently open before Labour came to power in 1997.
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The public's right to know is central to openness and not the media's role in providing information, he is expected to say. The Freedom of Information Act came into force in 2005. It gives people the right of access to information held by over 100,000 public bodies.
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