Written Ministerial Statement
Cabinet Office
31 March 2008
Lord Davies of Oldham: Written Ministerial Statement on
the Interim Progress Report on implementation of the Government's
Response to the Power of Information Review (Cm7157)
Lord Davies of Oldham
My honourable friend the Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office (Tom
Watson) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
On the 25th June 2007, the Government published its response to the Power
of Information Review (Cm7157). The Review was an independent study by Tom
Steinberg, Director of mySociety and Ed Mayo, Chief Executive of the
National Consumer Council to:
“explore new developments in the use and communication of citizen and
State generated public information in the UK, and to present an analysis and
recommendations to the Cabinet Office Minister as part of the Policy
Review”
The Government welcomed the findings of the Review, agreeing to the
majority of the reviewers' recommendations and outlined how they would
be taken forward.
I am pleased to announce the publication of the Government's Interim
Report into these recommendations.
This Report takes stock of progress made by Government in the past six
months and highlights the concrete actions departments are taking to
implement the Review.
Copies of this Report have been placed in the Libraries of the House.
