The UK's Freedom of Information Act came into force in 2005, ten years before the BBC published an article about it in January 2015.
Sources
- 10 things we found out because of Freedom of Information - BBC (bbc.com)
- https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05666/ (commonslibrary.parliament.uk)
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/10th-anniversary-of-freedom-of-information-act (gov.uk)
- https://eno.ombudsman.europa.eu/home/news/archives-2015/maincontent/10-years-of-foi-in-the-uk-tony-t.html (eno.ombudsman.europa.eu)
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