The Liverpool Echo has revealed – via #FOI disclosures – that 14 different Liverpool City Council elected members had parking tickets cancelled outside normal procedures. Whatever you think of FOI, it’s a smart use of it. When I read it, I didn’t know which angle was the best. I nearly went for records management, but I suspect that the records for these transactions were insubstantial by design. I wondered if I should make a point about public interest journalism but the story speaks for itself.

It's all change for Data Protection as the 'Digital' being extracted from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to be planted in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, although the Secretary of State (Michelle Donelan) is going with it. Freedom of Information sits under the Cabinet Office, their main involvement being to issue codes of practice and run the so-called 'Clearing House' which acts as a coordination unit for cross-government requests.