Water regulator is ‘worst offender’
The Water Industry Commission for Scotland was yesterdaynamed as the “worst example” of organisational FoI evasion encountered by Kevin Dunion in his nine-year term as Information Commissioner.
Speaking at Holyrood’s Justice Committee yesterday, when asked if he had evidence of deliberate attempts to avoid data-gathering, Mr Dunion said: “I’ve even been present at meetings where that has been said and they have said ‘cover your ears up, commissioner’.”
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Hide AdHe added: “If there was a case where people were deliberately meeting or exchanging emails through personal email addresses - as has been suggested has happened down south - in an attempt to avoid FoI requests - I think that has got to be at least looked at for the future.”