Despite being paid from the public, prisons operated under Government contract by private companies as a group not 4 will be covered by a proposal for extending freedom of information act. This marks a shift in dangerous where public services paid by us are no longer accountable to us because they have been outsourced to a private company.
This was upheld in a written reply of the Minister in Parliament yesterday.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm091110/text/91110w0010.htm
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November 10, 2009: 218W columnPrisons: freedom of information
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he plans to extend to private prisons the provisions of the freedom of Information Act 2000.[298646]
Mr. Wills: on 16 July, the Government published the response to its consultation on extending the freedom of information act by means of an order of section 5. noted that it was minded to include private prisons in an initial order. However, the Government has made it clear that it intends to maintain the extension of the law concerned.
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