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Network Rail is to all intents and purposes exercising a public function but is prevented from being covered by the FOI Act mearly because of the way the membership is constituted.

Section 5(1)(a) of the FOI Act permits the Secretary of State by order to designate as a public authority for the purposes of the Act any person who is neither listed in Schedule 1 nor capable of being added to that Schedule by an order under section 4(1), but who appears to the Secretary of State to exercise functions of a public nature.

I suggest Network Rail fullfills that criteria.

Current signatories

Peter Bennet, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• John Wilson
• Andrew Main
• Steve Webb
• Alan Swinnock
• Peter Binnersley
• Mark Tickner
• Raymond Orpin
• Cliff Cook
• Andy Brown
• Joseph O'Keefe
• Andy Bishop
• Morgan Tyreman
• James D Fairchild
• rob norman
• Nick Petty
• Robert Tarling
• Liam Chalk
• Michael Roberts
• Ben Stafford
• James Smith
• James Smith
• George Lloyd
• Gordon Vernon
• Andy Lickfold
• Charlie S
• Steve Lane
• Robert Kay
• Harry Aubrey Radburn
• Geoffrey Mayo
• Chris Law
• Brian Gooch
• Daniel Bateman
• William Cook
• Tony Cruickshank
• Angela Cataldo
• David Atkinson
• Bryan Kennerley
• Martin O'Brien
• Daniel Taylor
• Matt Johnson
• Paul Curran
• John bithell
• Andrew Day
• Christian Wolmar
• Paul Birchenough
• Ian Trimnell
• Simon Moore
• Michael Dennis
• Adrian Putley
• Dave Morrall
• malcolm hale
• Clive Jones
• Steve Crawshaw
• j p roberts
• Paul Biddle
• roger witt
• John Harding
• Denis Fryer
• Peter Johnson
• Roger Ford
• Paul M Knapton
• John Campbell
• mark middleton
• G I McAdam
• Benjamin Woodward
• Derek Small
• Robert Morris
• Kenneth F. Miller
• Kenneth Paul Otter
• Bill Wilson
• John Salmon
• Chris Marsh
• MIKE ARNOLD
• W. Smith
• David Harland
• Christopher Lord
• Richard Maund
• Jonathan Condell
• Emlyn Williams
• Peter Smyth
• Ian Stemp
• Geoffrey Blyth
• John Gough
• Paul Steane
• Keith Flinders
• Mark Brookes
• Don Barton
• Martyn Brailsford
• John McCrickard
• Ian Robert Hardy
• Robert Edward Augustine Taylor
• Timothy John Bourne
• Dean Stanley
• Steve Walden
• John Balmforth
• Stuart Ravenscroft
• Robert Benjamin Hebron
• Ian Jenkins
• Dave Bennett
• Richard Lemon
• Dave Archibald
• Alan Roberts
• nigel e
• Chris. Hardy
• Steve Lilley
• chris dye
• Ivan Noble
• Richard White
• Robert Terrace
• James Hatch
• Ian Jenkins
• Tim Bruin
• Claire Barrett
• Daniel Barrett
• Andrew Jolly
• Martin Elms
• Nicholas Jones
• Shaun Kelly
• Ian Hughes
• Daniel Evans
• Jordan Edwards
• Paul Michael Ebbens, BSc
• Alan Coleman
• Chris Jackson
• Richard Lewis
• Adrian Putley
• Roger Bailey
• Dr Richard Diamond
• Matthew Hardy
• Margaret King
• Ian Madder
• S Everett
• Barry Salter
• Ron Richards
• Lee Fletcher
• Graham Ellis
• Tim Freeborn
• Chris Hayes
• Tehmina Goskar
• Damian Johnson
• Duncan Hames
• Baron Von Klinkerofen der Grosse
• Jonathan Morris
• Roger Creagh-Osborne
• tom wells
• B Massey
• Rob Rothwell
• Edward Betts
• Tom betts
• Julien Weston
• Edward Sloley
• Malcolm Thomson
• Nicholas Field
• Brendan Biggs
• David Habershon
• David Lovell
• Patrick Hulme
• Ian Boreham
• Toby Lewis
• stuart Leather
• Derek R Allum
• chris kelly