Restoring the trust in politics

June 4, 2007 Come the revolution, Police State No comments
! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.

The Tartan Taxman, Prime Minister-designate and all-round nice guy, wants to restore trust in politics.  That’s what he said a couple of weeks ago.  So why isn’t he jumping up and down demanding the heads of whoever has instructed the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) to shred documents rather than release them under the FOI Act?

An FOI request was put in for copies of “gateway review reports” on the ID Cards and NHS computer systems but the OGC refused to provide them.  A tribunal ruled that the documents had to be released so the OGC are going to the High Court to try and keep them secret.  Now Computer Weekly Online has been leaked details of instructions to civil servants at the OGC to destroy the reports rather than make them public.

The leaked memo says “You must securely dispose of the [final gateway] report and all supporting documents immediately after delivery of the final report”.

The OGC is part of the Treasury.

Hat-tip: An Englishmans Castle

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