Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:32:43 +0000
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - ACTA Secrecy
From: Mr Harding <[FOI #27508 email]>
To: FOI requests at Intellectual Property Office <[Intellectual Property Office request email]>

Dear Intellectual Property Office,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Intellectual Property
Office's handling of my FOI request 'ACTA Secrecy'.

I cannot believe that the Public Interest Test was at all
objective. The ACTA has the capability of imposing big changes onto
the UK and this information is being withheld from our MPs, and
undermining the democratic process. When my fellow constituents and
I elect our MP, it is for them to represent us and our interests in
the National Parliament and I find it abhorrent that foreign powers
are objecting to my representative knowing about these
negotiations.

I can think of few pieces of information that have a greater public
interest that which countries are imposing their will of secrecy
onto the UK Government and undermining our democratic process.

I therefore wish to insist that the internal review considers the
public interest test more carefully.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/acta_secrecy

Yours faithfully,

Mr Harding



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