The Department for International Trade (DIT) has broken #FOI laws more often than it has followed them, new figures have revealed.
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The ministry responded to #FOI requests within normal time limits on less than one in five occasions in the first quarter of this year. Including permitted extensions, it provided just 45 per cent of responses within legally mandatory timescales.
While by far the worst, DIT is not alone. The Department for Health and Social Care, Department for Culture Media and Sport and the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy also regularly broke transparency law. 
Maurice Frankel, director of @CampaignFoI, says transparency watchdog the ICO needs to intervene.
“The ICO recently acknowledged it needs to do more systemic enforcement to make clear where performance simply must improve. There could hardly be a clearer case for intervention.”
“The ICO recently acknowledged it needs to do more systemic enforcement to make clear where performance simply must improve. There could hardly be a clearer case for intervention.”
Today's Times leader calls for just that.
"Voters have a right to know what is being done in their name and with their money. Departments need to get on with telling them."
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"Voters have a right to know what is being done in their name and with their money. Departments need to get on with telling them."
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"If they fail, then John Edwards, the information commissioner, must become much more muscular in the use of his legal powers to compel ministers to do so."
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