UK Government responds to PoI!
The UK Government published a response to the Power of Information (PoI) report. The Minister for Digital Engagement Tom Watson MP in the executive summary of the report titled: Digital Engagement: Update on Power of Information states:
“The Power of Information principles are no longer just recommendations in a report but will be core to the future development and implementation of government policy.”
The report groups the Government responses to the Power of information report under the following headings:
- Open information
- Open feedback
- Open conversation
- Open innovation
Annex A (pages 20 to 32) of the report lists the Power of Information report recommendations in numerical order together with the detail of the Government response to each recommendation. In summary:
Recommendation 1 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 2 - Government response: Accepted in principle Recommendation 3 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 4 - Government response: Partially Accepted Recommendation 5 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 6 - Government response: Accepted in principle Recommendation 7 - Government response: Accepted in principle Recommendation 8 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 9 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 10 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 11 - Government response: Accepted in principle Recommendation 12 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 13 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 14 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 15 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 16 - Government response: Accepted in principle Recommendation 17 - Government response: Accepted in principle Recommendation 18 - Government response: Accepted in principle Recommendation 19 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 20 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 21 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 22 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 23 - Government response: Accepted in principle Recommendation 24 - Government response: Accepted Recommendation 25 - Government response: Accepted
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