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Freedom of Information Act set to stay
3rd March 2016
Despite Sir Jeremy Heywood describing the FOI Act as having a "chilling effect" on the government, and Tony Blair describing himself following his introduction of the FOI Act as "There is really no description of stupidity, no matter how vivid, that is adequate. I quake at the imbecility of i.", the Freedom of Information Commission has decided that the Act should remain, unchanged, in place.
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Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.
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