Royal Communications Petition

A good petition to sign:

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to change the Freedom of Information Act so that the royal house hold and communications between the household and government are no longer exempt"

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/householdfoi/?showall=1

Do your bit to get more choice for voters

If preferential voting is combined with multi-member constituencies, voters can choose between different official candidates of the same party.

This will increase voter choice and improve accountability.

Please sign the petition: voter choice

once you have done that why not register on STV Action?

the Government’s response to my petition

"Thank you for your e-petition about the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

It is true that the effect of section 6 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is that only companies that are wholly owned by a single public authority are subject to the Act.

However, there is a provision in the Act for other bodies that appear to exercise public functions to be made subject to the Act, by means of an order under section 5. The Government has recently conducted a public consultation on whether to use the power under section 5 to extend the coverage of the Act to bodies that carry out functions of a public nature. We intend to publish our findings by this summer."

• http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page18953
• http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/publiccompanies
  

Suggestions for next campaign

The petition has now closed... but the work goes on.


Please comment if you have any ideas for the next campaign to improve access to information in the UK. It could be a petition, a pledge, a new resource or something totally different.

Petition Closed - 370 Signatures

Thanks to everyone who signed and everyone who promoted this. I have not yet received a response from Number 10 but most petitions with this many signatures do get responses so I am expecting one.

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/publiccompanies/

We won - MPs expenses will be published

Read here how the proposed change to the law was defeated

We have won this battle but the campaign to extend and improve freedom of information goes on.

If you are looking for a positive step to take why not sign this:


http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/publiccompanies/

Petition now live

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to support a change to the law to make companies owned two thirds or more by public authorities subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000."

PLEASE SIGN: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/publiccompanies/

See also more details on the Number 10 Petition site.

Submitted by John Cross of Confirm or Deny – Deadline to sign up by: 23 January 2009

Access to Information Held by Public Companies

Petition Coming Soon... on Number 10 website - I hope!

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to support a change to the law to make companies owned two thirds or more by public authorities subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.