Presented at AlaveteliCon 2019 in Oslo. More details of the conference can be found here: https://www.mysociety.org/transparency/alaveteli/alavetelicon-2019/

1. FOI stories (and a battle)
@JennaCorderoy
jenna.corderoy@opendemocracy.net
23rd September 2019

2. We investigate:
- Lobbying
- Anonymous money in UK politics
- Transparency (or lack of) issues surrounding ministers’ meetings and
hospitality
- And… Brexit
FOI stories (and a battle)

3. FOI stories (and a battle)

4. FOI stories (and a battle)

5. Transparency is important where it feels like UK politics is getting murkier (and especially when
powerful - and unaccountable - organisations are in play).
FOI stories (and a battle)

6. - Does not make public its membership list composed of politicians
- Accepted a donation from a highly controversial businessman
- Does not publish its accounts
- And yet receives hundreds of thousands of pounds in taxpayers’ money
to fund its ‘research’ - research that its members rely upon but kept
away from the public
FOI stories (and a battle)

7. FOI stories (and a battle)

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9. FOI stories (and a battle)