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Wills again too

Martin Rosenbaum | 09:52 UK time, Thursday, 5 July 2007

It's been announced that the minister directly in charge of freedom of information policy at the Ministry of Justice will be , a Brown loyalist with an interest in constitutional reform.

As with Jack Straw, he's been there before. He also had responsibility for FOI when he was a junior minister in 2001/2, in what was then called the Lord Chancellor's Department.

Earlier this year, as a backbencher speaking in a Westminster Hall debate, he his opposition to the government's planned restrictions on FOI. His view was that a better way to save money, which would avoid the consequences of the proposals, would be to have more efficient record management systems.

We wait to see whether he convinces his ministerial colleagues of that.

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