Housing Associations Should Be Subject To FOIA

Housing associations should be subject to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, the information commissioner has said.  In a report laid before parliament, Elizabeth Denham cited the Grenfell Tower fire when saying the transparency gap in the case of housing associations is “emphatic and clear”. Her report, Outsourcing Oversight?, laid out the commissioner’s views on reforming laws around access to information. The central thrust of the report was that organisations “exercising functions of a public nature” should be made subject to FOI laws. Read more on Inside Housing.

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