Ministers will go to court to avoid disclosing state spending on Royal Family

"Ministers are to go to court to try to stop The Independent from seeing secret correspondence which could shed light on how public money has been spent on the Royal Family."

Source: Indepenent

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

Public want disclosure of royal finances

"62% of people want details of the royal family’s public spending to be fully available. "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6591257.ece

don't let the Government get away with it

Don't let the Government get away with taking your freedom of information rights away just when they are starting to make a difference. They want to make it harder for you to get information about the cabinet and about royals.

If anything we need more and better rights not less.

Join this group now and help to stop them

"Cabinet papers will be released much earlier than under the current rule, but will be subject to an absolute exemption under the Act until they are 20 years old."

"To ensure the constitutional position and political impartiality of the Monarchy is not undermined, the relevant exemption in the Freedom of Information Act will be made absolute for information relating to communications with the Royal Household that is less than 20 years' old. After that ... the exemption will continue to apply until five years after their death"

Source: BBC