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From the London Independent:

Hundreds of thousands of government documents are destroyed in the great Freedom of Information Act scandal

By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent

23 December 2004

Hundreds of thousands of secret Whitehall files are being shredded before the public gains the right to see them under the Freedom of Information Act on 1 January.

Figures obtained by The Independent show a dramatic escalation in the destruction of confidential papers before the new rights of access come into force. Whitehall departments, including the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), have almost doubled the number of files they have destroyed since the Freedom of Information Act became law.

Although the legislation was passed in 2000, Whitehall was given more than four years to prepare for its introduction. Ministers are bracing themselves for a flood of demands to see confidential documents. Freedom of Information will give the public unprecedented access to previously secret files, including details of ministers’ diaries and confidential briefing papers.

But MPs accused the Government last night of racing to shred compromising information in a desperate attempt to hide it from the public.

Continue reading at The Memory Blog “UK: “Shredded: Hundreds of Thousands of Government Documents”"

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