Issue - meetings

This report considers options for publishing requests for information made under the Freedom of Information Act, with related replies, on the Council’s public website. It also comments on the routine publication of information and the Council’s Publication Scheme.

RESOLVED: That consideration of this item be deferred.

REASON:      To allow time for Officers to bring forward proposals aimed at providing easy access for Members and the public to the answers provided in response to FOI requests.

Members considered a report which set out options for publishing requests for information under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, and related replies, on the Council’s website.  It also commented on the routine publication of information and the Council’s Publication Scheme, formally adopted in December 2008. Compliance with the Scheme was currently under review, with the objective of increasing the proportion of published information.

The report had been prepared in response to a reply by the Council Leader to a question asked at Full Council on 4 February 2010 on the desirability of publishing such information on the Council’s website to improve openness and transparency.

RESOLVED: That consideration of this item be deferred. ¹

REASON:      To allow time for Officers to bring forward proposals aimed at providing easy access for Members and the public to the answers provided in response to FOI requests.