Sixteen forces sent usable data. The numbers are below in full, exactly as supplied. Before you read them, here is why they can’t be lined up against each other. You’ve…
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Since 1 November 2018, doctors on the General Medical Council’s specialist register have been able to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use, under Home Office regulations that rescheduled the products…
Reasonable adjustments are often explained in very broad terms. Applicants are told that support is available, or that an employer is committed to inclusion, but they’re not always given a…
FOI disclosures from West Yorkshire Police and Avon and Somerset Police show a clear difference between recorded policing outcomes at Leeds Festival and Glastonbury between 2022 and 2025. Glastonbury is…
The Information Commissioner’s Office appears to have been considering ways to reduce the pressure Freedom of Information requests place on public authorities and on the ICO itself. A disclosure reported…
The North East Combined Authority told an FOI requester in March that it held no recorded information within scope of a request about the proposed “Great North Olympics”. That answer…
Public bodies logged almost 100,000 recruitment adjustment requests, but many couldn’t say how many were actually provided. A Freedom of Information investigation by The Reasonable Adjustment asked 15 public authorities…
If you’re coming to this fresh, it’s worth reading the earlier background piece first, Newcastle City Council’s FOI redaction failure involving The Recruitment Junction. The live FOI thread behind this…
FOI / Records Governance Councils can keep education and SEND records for decades. Once you start asking how those decisions are documented, explained and disclosed, the picture gets a lot…
FOI Investigation · Speed Enforcement The Metropolitan Police processed 737,198 speeding offences in 2025. A Freedom of Information request has produced the full breakdown: every case split by speed limit,…