Tom Brake has introduced a Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill in the House of Commons that aims to remove the current ministerial veto to block FOI requests, to extend the time limit for bringing proceedings where records are deliberately altered, to limit the response time when considering the public interest and to extend the type of organisations covered by FOI laws. The controversy over the time limit for deletion of information requested under FOI was recently raised in the university ‘Climategate’ affair. Extending FOI to include private organisations carrying out public functions is already being considered in Scotland. Any changes to the current law in managing information and dealing with requests will be relevant to all 'public' FE and HE institutions. For the full article, please go to: http://www.out-law.com/page-11357.