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Freedom of Information

'When I did an FoI request to DoH they were evasive, took ages and went to appeal, When they finally sent an answer, it was in an unreadable or corrupt format. I've had similar problems with Cabinet Office and...'

Read more (written 15th Apr). 1 response
Whitehall Switchboard

'The central Whitehall switchboard 020 7217 3000 is way way better than it was, and works pretty well generally. But man when it goes wrong it looks bad from the customer end, and it?s a classic case of CRM-disempowered...'

Read more (written 15th Apr). No responses yet.
'ALL targets set by Central Government...'

'ALL targets set by Central Government were be submitted to a YouGov poll and which do not get a marjoprity vote in support (i.e. after deducting don't know and don't care) were automatically dropped unless...'

Read more (written 16th Apr). 3 responses
A group of people - not actually working...

A group of people - not actually working in the work with workers, and who therefore don't understand what impact their 'good' ideas will have can suggest things.

And then the central authorities...

Read more (written 19th May). No responses yet.
Tax credits should be given to tax payers too!

The people who work and pay taxes are the ones who benefit from tax credits.

I have a small baby, we live in a house that is freezing and don't qualify for the central heating grant because we work. That...

Read more (written 23rd May). No responses yet.
central Government, rather than operating...

central Government, rather than operating in isolation with a plethora of different IT hardware and providers, looked at the shared services model and moved to a one product fits all for each Government department...

Read more (written 29th May). 1 response
The National Land and Property Gazetteer...

The National Land and Property Gazetteer was fully resourced and used universally by Central and Local Government. All duplicate address lists could be replaced with one saving millions in maintenance costs and ...

Read more (written 1st Jun). 1 response
When dealing your Child/Working Tax ...

When dealing your Child/Working Tax Credit claim, each claiment is assigned a case worker. My experience is that who you get through to is random. Advice received is random. You get through to one person, and...

Read more (written 3rd Jun). No responses yet.
If there was a single means for local...

If there was a single means for local services such as police, probation, health etc to report into central government departments rather than having to input similar information on different systems.

Read more (written 5th Jun). No responses yet.
Disabled People Deserve this principle to be a reality "Nothing About Us Without Us"

Give disabled people a more effective, accountable, and democraticly elected voice that meets the simple principles embodied in the concept, "Nothing about us without us".

The following is a copy...

Read more (written 20th Aug). No responses yet.
Joined up Standards

Central government once and for all began to work joined up. I work in housing and you could say we are a dog with many tails all of which wag us. We are regulated and inspected by many different channels. i...

Read more (written 24th Aug). No responses yet.


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