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Two e-petitions have been created, one asking that census information should be released after 70 years, and another that access to census information should be improved under the FOI Act. When householders gave information to the census enumerators, they understood that information would not be released for 100 years (most people who gave information would be dead before that). This undertaking should be respected. The organiser of one petition writes that 'Birth, Marriage and Death information is already available so why is information about where people lived hidden.' Birth, marriage and death registers have always, neccesarily, been in the public domain, unlike the census.

The FOI Act should be amended to prevent access to information the submission of which has been accompanied by confidentiality guarantees

Current signatories

David Franks, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• David Fisher
• Charani Batchelor
• Jon Whiting
• Adrian Bruce
• Mr Peter R Gill
• Jay Kay
• Andrea Hedgcock
• John Warner
• P A Williams
• judith berntsen
• John Wynn
• Stephanie Jenkins
• Rachel Andrews
• Andrew Riding
• Barry Hepburn
• Margaret Le Santo
• Mike Shingleton
• PGH DU BOULAY
• Peter Bolson
• marjorie peek
• John G. Smithson
• Susanna L. Smithson
• David M Tomlinson
• Terry Guswell
• DAVNET bARKER
• Maureen Lawrence
• Derek Shilson
• Julie Cummings
• John Steer
• Joan Lawrence
• Anne Harty
• David W Webster
• Janet L. Ogden
• Eobert Spargo
• Paula Dixon
• ann dear
• ashley dear
• David R Manning
• David Steel
• Stewart Dukes
• jan simpson
• Michael Harnett
• Susan BOURNE
• David Nye
• keith franklin
• Louise Cartwright
• J. A. Wright
• Kath Jones
• Ailsa Barnes
• Roy Hirst
• Norman Downs
• David Ogden
• Wilma Marshall
• Stephen Marshall
• Alison Hughes
• Gordon Sobey
• Frank Cassidy
• Janet May Davies, [formerly Janet May Chester]
• Anna Pryde
• Robert Christy
• Marie Nelson
• Margaret A Young
• David H. Norton
• Derick Johnson
• Sheila Clemett
• Gemma Bellerby
• richard Bellerby
• Mrs. Dawn Davies
• Anne-marie Barr
• Paula Medcalf
• Ian A C Scott
• Joe Taylor
• Alan Brigham
• Teresa Goatham
• Michael Thompson
• tracey byrne
• anthony kenny
• Alun J Gauld
• Geoffrey George Peacey
• David Boyd
• Stewart Campbell
• Kerry Hawke
• Mark Lee
• Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
• Anita Metcalfe
• Diane Kidd
• Peggy Boyles
• Eileen Jones
• Louise Dennis
• G R Moore
• Joy Richardson
• Andrew Burbage
• Isabel Clark
• Sue Diaper
• Duncan Jeffery
• Joan Holland
• kay sumpner
• Graeme Clark Hall
• Joan Wilkie
• Susie Coles
• J Cuthbert
• Joshua William Blower
• Ann Marie Hendry
• Michael Fearn
• David G Balding
• Jon Saturley
• Ian Selley
• Alan Foy
• Paul Harris
• Martin Butt
• Peter Varley
• Jane Wood
• Samantha Lewis
• John Rowley
• Simon Gibbs
• Sam smith
• David Gerard
• Christopher Boot