Home Department written question – answered at on 3 June 2013.
Tom Watson
Labour Party Deputy Chair; Campaign Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair, Labour Party
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans she has to make the Police ICT company subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Damian Green
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice and Home Office) , The Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice
The Police ICT company as it is currently constructed is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The Act applies to “public authorities”, which includes “publicly-owned companies” as defined in section 6. The Police ICT company does not fall within the relevant definition because it is not wholly owned either by the Crown, or any other body which is subject to the Act.
Yes2 people think so
No93 people think not
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