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14 Dec, 3 tweets, 2 min read
🚨We're urging peers to support an amendment to be debated this evening to bring the Advanced Research and Invention Agency under the #FOI Act.🚨
As it stands, ARIA will be excluded from #FOI altogether. We are encouraging peers to support Amendment 6 in the name of Lord Clement-Jones, Lord Fox, Baroness Chapman of Darlington and Viscount Stansgate, which would make ARIA subject to the FOIA.
Read our briefing for peers cfoi.org.uk/2021/12/campai…

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