Today I learnt about a website called WhatDoTheyKnow that lets you make and view Freedom of Information requests.
Registered users can use the site to make Freedom of Information requests to cover 5790 authorities, ranging rom the Royal Mail, to local Councils, to Number 10.
You can run a keyword search across requests that have been made via the website, use date restrictions and also specify whether you want to see all requests, or just successful, unsuccessful or unresolved requests. Alternatively you can browse by the name of the authority.
Each request is available to view in full, along with the name of the name who made it, and the response. Each request is given a status, e.g. successful, partially successful, awaiting response, and so on.
I'm not sure how useful it will be in my day to day work, but it is highly addictive.
WhatDoTheyKnow:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/
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