The ongoing saga of the Home Office Identity Cards Programme has resulted, at last, in an Internal Review a letter and a printout via snail mail, rather than via email.
Do you think it is worth complaining to the Information Commissioner ? Bear in mind that the Information Commissioner has taken months and is still considering another of our FOIA requests, relating to the non publication of the Office of Government Commerce Gateway Reviews of the Identity Cards Bill.
UPDATE 27th December 2005:
The most interesting stuff is the "dog which did not bark in the night" i.e. the meetings which are missing. On the evidence of this FOIA disclosure, it does not seem as if the policy of
"the need for extensive consultation to ensure that Ministers receive the best advice available and that correct decisions are taken."
has been adhered to.
There do not seem to be any meetings by these senior members of the Identity Cards Programme team specifically with other Central Government Departments, or the
Office of the e-Envoy / e-government unit. There do not seem to be any meetings with the Treasury to discuss the estimated costs of the porject.
Where are the meetings with the Office of Government Commerce Gateway Reviewers, a process which takes at least a week ?
Also notable by their absence are any meetings with civil liberties or IT secuiry and privacy experts,.
Obviously some or all of these "missing" groups could have been in contact with the Identity Cards Programme Team via other methods apart from official face to face meetings, e.g. email, phone, letter etc.but one would have expected any people or groups whose views were considered important by the Identity Cards programme Team to have merited several meetings.
Email us if you are interested in seeing the full disclosure, an anodyne sample of which is published below:
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