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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. More details
Submitted by John Cross of Confirm or Deny – Deadline to sign up by: 23 January 2009 – Signatures: 97
More details from petition creator
The public has a right to know how public money is spent.
At present Section 6 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 makes companies that are 100% owned by the Crown or by a single public authority subject to the Act.
The current law is not sensible - a company owned by one local authority is subject to the Act but a company owned by two local authorities is not.
A more sensible approach is to make all companies owned two thirds or more by any number of public authorities subject to the Act.
Current signatories
John Cross, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/tombaker/)
- Keith Garrett
- Heather Brooke
- john webb
- Benny Spooner
- AMLN McGreggor
- Francis Irving
- Se Bacon
- Julian Burgess
- Duncan Parkes
- Feargal Hogan
- Simon Roe
- Francis Davey
- Jack Wasey
- Owen Blacker
- Ned Morrell
- Paul Clarke
- Kevin Wells
- Edmund Crawford
- Guy Freeman
- Robert (Jamie) Munro
- Robert Whittaker
- Fearghas McKay
- Stuart Bonar
- Darwin Peltan
- Helen Cross
- Dr Kaihsu Tai
- Gary Fenton
- Tim Diggins
- Michael Holloway
- Andrew Reed
- Ben Wraith
- Nick Hall
- Alex Skene
- Josh Smith
- Dustin McGivern
- Lydia Medland
- Grant Slater
- Alan Muhammed
- Sue Doughty
- David Miller
- Simon Ward
- Helen Darbishire
- Nigel Bywater
- Jenny Lopez
- Ben Walker
- Richard Moore
- Katherine Gundersen
- Adam Sandell
- Gareth Winchester
- Kenneth Dick
- Sharon Bowles MEP
- paul mclaughlin
- Hazel Edmunds
- Zoe Nolan
- Jonty Wareing
- Richard Rothwell
- Edward Barrow
- Russell Phillips
- Sam Morris
- Julian Hawksworth
- Graham Cobb
- Philip Leith
- James Lowey
- Jon Grant
- Ray Dickenson
- Nicholas Bohm
- Andrew Ecclestone
- Derek Manson-Smith
- Joseph Harris
- Juliet Walker
- Norman Baird
- David Mainwood
- Carl Wiper
- David Gerard
- Leo Chapman
- Barbara Cahalane
- Jane Pennington
- Michael Rowe
- William Heath
- Maurice Frankel
- Paul Francis
- Bob Wakeling
- Heather Martin
- Philip Hunt
- Terry Franks
- Brian M Hall
- Virginia Morck
- David Durant
- Sylvia Forde
- Ciaran Ward
- Matthew Legge
- Trevor nunn
- Pauline Nunn
- Jonathan Gray
- Michael Cross
