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alex3619 said:The UK is considered by some, including journalist Heather Brooke, to be one of the most secretive governments in the western world. This appears to be changing, with more options now available to access material which was previously denied to the public. I am still investigating this.
As someone from the UK, I think we are only a small step above China in some areas (obviously, not all). One of the major problem areas in my opinion is that regardless of rights and what the law says, getting your rights and the law enacted is incredibly difficult in this country. In other words, how things appear to look in this country and how they actually are is very different.
What were the processes involved in extending the usual 30 year period for archived files at Kew to 73 years? Does anyone have evidence of this process? There is a lot of discussion, but not a lot of evidence that I can see.
Presumably this happened before the 2005 FOI Act?
But I agree that it is very important to understand how and when these records became anomalous. If someone can tell me what records exactly we are talking about then i will search the net for the answer, and if i cant out for sure then I'm willing to write to the archives and ask, and should get an answer (assuming that info isnt classified too)...