MPs are going ahead with their plans to exempt themselves from the Freedom of Information Act. Former Tory whip David Maclean claims his private members' bill, a two-clause amendment to the FoI Act, is necessary to protect MPs' constituency correspondence. But FoI campaigners Norman Baker and Richard Shepherd are fighting the move. (Via Press Gazette)
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