BBC News: Leicestershire council leader faces chauffeur bill criticism
The TaxPayers’ Alliance called such spending “unacceptable” when the authority was making £74m of cuts.
Friday 16 March 2012
The Guardian: Why are councils spinning against freedom of information?
As John O’Connell, research director at the Taxpayers’ Alliance told me: “The Freedom of Information Act was one of the most important pieces of legislation enacted by the last government. FOI helped shift the power back to those who pay, and away from those who spend. It would be wrong to impose limits or caps on how much information taxpayers can request, and if public bodies wish to cut down on the work they do responding to FOI requests then they should simply publish more information proactively.”
