Forcing such well-informed and passionate campaigners to resort to freedom of information requests to get hold of data and meeting minutes was arrogant and foolish.
Freedom of Information requests to the department fared no better.
This figure was obtained by the Press Association through Freedom of Information requests to the Police.
Still, the figures were quite clear, and people kept submitting Freedom of Information requests to get them.
Freedom of information requests to London boroughs revealed the disturbing consequences of government housing measures since July.
There was outrage when it emerged Martin had attempted to block Freedom of Information requests to reveal MPs' expenses.
In another experiment meant to measure availability of government information, ADC sent 49 information requests to various government ministries.
To collect data for their report, they submitted Freedom of Information requests to 211 health bodies in the UK.
The Independent obtained the figures after sending Freedom of Information requests to all 45 UK police forces.
The data was obtained by The Independent via Freedom of Information requests to the UK's 54 fire services.
But government policy is not always the same as government practice and, as recently as March, Whitehall was actively fighting off freedom of information requests to release Coins.
