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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to implement a full Freedom of Information Act. There is no justification in Government business being executed in a shroud of secrecy. The Government works in our name, therefore access to ALL business should be free and immediate. More details
Submitted by David Watkins – Deadline to sign up by: 20 September 2007 – Signatures: 261
Petition update, 29 November 2007
You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "implement a full Freedom of Information Act. There is no justification in Government business being executed in a shroud of secrecy. The Government works in our name, therefore access to ALL business should be free and immediate."The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13882.asp
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More details from petition creator
Public officials and politicians are paid from the public purse to administrate on our behalf. Recent episodes concerning the Honours system, reports on Iraqi WMD, Immigration Applications in Sheffield, etc demonstrate that traditional public service values of honesty and fairness are no longer contingent with the party political imperative. The vast public sector which is a huge, non-wealth-creating slice of the economy and the people it employs and in whom we are expected to place our trust, no longer operate for the public good. Total transparency of all dealings, immediate publication of Notes of all Meetings, Public Accounts, Expense Claims, Travel Authorisations, etc is the only fair and reasonable means by which to regain the faith of the People.
Current signatories
David Watkins, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Darren Featch
- connery seery
- D Porritt
- r j boorman
- A Brixey
- Keith Garrett
- Sarah Pantry
- Fiona Tomlins
- Evan Owen
- mairi mackechnie
- Helen Easton
- Dick King
- N Bains
- Colin Karp
- Paul Will
- James Porter
- John Colam
- Bruce Robb
- Paul Brown
- James Clarke
- Mereanthy Sullivan
- Daniel A Mc Neill
- Nick Dowling
- james white
- David Carr
- basil drinkwater
- John Newbold
- Alan Wilson
- Roy Lewis
- David Spooner
- Joe Taylor
- Katy Pritchard
- James Glennie
- Jane Glennie
- Andrew Morton
- Stephen Smith
- Alex Dziedzan
- June Bonnar
- Thomas Hodgson
- Lindsay Jones
- Hamish McArthur
- LESTER STAITE
- Pat Duncan
- Stephen Duncan
- eric white
- Christopher Kerr
- Jamie McHale
- Andrew Potter
- Holly Kosmin
- Ryan Cullen
- Meral Ece
- Justin McKeating
- Joe Lanman
- Simon Stokes
- Amy Rodger
- Daniel Houghton
- Nicholas Dunnett
- Saskia Kendall
- Gareth Epps
- Daniel Fisher
- Ceredig Jamieson-Ball
- stephen yeardley
- Jo Wittams
- Luke Croydon
- Martin Tod
- Rob Blackie
- Sean Kemp
- Dominic Tristram
- Matthew Jones
- James Lloyd
- Anne-Marie Spellman
- Gez Smith
- Jim McDonald
- Elaine Bagshaw
- Naomi Smith
- Nadine Kendall
- Caedmon Gould
- Nick Barlow
- Mark Round
- Sarah Green
- Bridget Ansell
- Jeremy Harris
- Mark hanger
- Adam Nazir Ahmed Teladia
- Gavin Whenman
- S. Bennett
- Paul Croydon
- Alexandra Runswick
- William Cameron
- James Kinman
- Ceri Finnegan
- gareth Davies
- Adam Cunliffe
- Stefan Zarifi
- mike dixon
- Stephanie Kate Ashley
- PJGoddard
- m waterfield
- Stephen Harte
- Glenn Goodall
- James Croydon
- Jon Nangle
- Andy Hawkins
- Tristan Mills
- David Harris
- Cara Drury
- Tony Kiernan
- Mike Cox
- Emily Robinson
- Duncan Stephen
- Mahmood Faiz
- Sayem Rahman
- Madeleine Croydon
- Daniel Reaney
- Arif Waghat
- Anna Langley
- John Gibbs
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- Jessica Johansen
- Fraser O'Neill
- Sally Duncan
- Patrick Wallace
- John Farrar
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- Ruth Everness
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- Chris Moore
- Robert Sharp
- Richard Mark Lee
- Kayte Wanstall
- Steve Robinson
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- Alistair Turnbull
- Roly
- David Croydon
- Philip Challinor
- Peter Allen
- Angela Quartermaine
- Daniel Derrett
- john wade
- Chris Isaac
- Ian Stuart Blaney, Esq.
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- Christopher Park
- Dawood-Ebrahim Akhoon
- Tom Huckstep
- Liz Watford
- Victoria Carr
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- Jo Shaw
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- Gareth Winchester
- Richard Brighton
- Jonathan Trappe
- Rosemary Coote
- Philip Barber
- Andrew Duncan
- Jean Ann Cobb
- walter buchanan
- s rhodes
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- Craig Alway
- Oscar Mascarenhas
- philip roberts
- lee ware
- Paul Moroney
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- James Hill
- M Pittman
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- Leigh Brown
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- John McDonald
- Stewart Whyte
- Chandresh Varsani
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- Jonathan Bradshaw
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- David Keogh
- Crispin Cooper
- John Shepherd
- Philip Smith
- Jean Searle
- alan kendall
- Paul Fairless
- Colin Reeves
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- Aled Owen
- Carole I east
- Sally Reynolds
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- neil harknett
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