As Directly Operated Railways Ltd and East Coast Main Line Company Ltd are companies owned by the government, will the Freedom of Information Act apply to them? And would we be able to get anything interesting from them?
> As Directly Operated Railways Ltd and East Coast Main Line Company Ltd > are companies owned by the government, will the Freedom of Information > Act apply to them? And would we be able to get anything interesting > from them?
As long as they are "wholly owned by the Crown" then yes. This means
(a) a company is wholly owned by the Crown if it has no members except- (i) Ministers of the Crown, government departments or companies wholly owned by the Crown, or (ii) persons acting on behalf of Ministers of the Crown, government departments or companies wholly owned by the Crown
Mark Morton wrote: > As Directly Operated Railways Ltd and East Coast Main Line Company Ltd > are companies owned by the government, will the Freedom of Information > Act apply to them? And would we be able to get anything interesting > from them?
Yes, FOI will apply. Whether you would be able to get much more that's interesting than you would have been able to before, I'm not so sure. The TOCs have to share a lot of documentation with government bodies, and all of that was already subject to FOI.
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