Comments on: There is no freedom of information despite the law - the case of the Olympics http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/20/there-is-no-freedom-of-information-despite-the-law-the-case-of-the-olympics/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: wayne http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/20/there-is-no-freedom-of-information-despite-the-law-the-case-of-the-olympics/#comment-1196 wayne Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:39:25 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=167#comment-1196 I made a FOI request a few months back. I asked how much Holmehouse Prison spends on computer games and sky tv. They have been refusing to give it to me because it could damage their reputation. Anything that will make them look very bad they will not tell us about it. I made a FOI request a few months back. I asked how much Holmehouse Prison spends on computer games and sky tv. They have been refusing to give it to me because it could damage their reputation.

Anything that will make them look very bad they will not tell us about it.

]]> By: Stuart Fairney http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/20/there-is-no-freedom-of-information-despite-the-law-the-case-of-the-olympics/#comment-1195 Stuart Fairney Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:09:44 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=167#comment-1195 And you have to believe that if the KPMG report showed that Tessa and the DCMS had an iron grip on spending, a clear idea of the delivery strategy and a vice like adherence to the development program, they would be trumpeting it from the rooftops. So the fact we can't see it rather confirms what we may already suspect to be true. Incidentally, can you think of any other sector or industry where you could cheerfully report you got the costs wrong, they were in fact almost four times the original estimate and therefore it was necessary to find another And you have to believe that if the KPMG report showed that Tessa and the DCMS had an iron grip on spending, a clear idea of the delivery strategy and a vice like adherence to the development program, they would be trumpeting it from the rooftops. So the fact we can’t see it rather confirms what we may already suspect to be true.

Incidentally, can you think of any other sector or industry where you could cheerfully report you got the costs wrong, they were in fact almost four times the original estimate and therefore it was necessary to find another

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